[gnome-characters] Release 40.beta

[Christopher Davis <christopherdavis src gnome org>]

commit 770fbd771760a3587b9514d03119d994c7495c6f
Author: Christopher Davis <christopherdavis gnome org>
Date:   Sat Feb 13 21:27:36 2021 -0800

    Release 40.beta

 NEWS                                     | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 data/org.gnome.Characters.appdata.xml.in |  1 +
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
---
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 31c5c8f..ddbfadb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,29 @@
+40.beta
+=======
+
+Characters has received a visual upgrade, and is now able to be used across
+mobile and desktop form factors.
+
+* Translation updates:
+ - Bokmål, Norwegian
+ - Catalan
+ - Dutch
+ - Esperanto
+ - Galician
+ - Hebrew
+ - Hungarian
+ - Italian
+ - Japanese
+ - Kazakh
+ - Kurdish, Central
+ - Panjabi
+ - Portuguese
+ - Portuguese (Brazil)
+ - Romanian
+ - Slovenian
+ - Swedish
+ - Ukrainian
+
 3.34.0
 ===
 
diff --git a/data/org.gnome.Characters.appdata.xml.in b/data/org.gnome.Characters.appdata.xml.in
index 26a8e27..f73021c 100644
--- a/data/org.gnome.Characters.appdata.xml.in
+++ b/data/org.gnome.Characters.appdata.xml.in
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
   <translation type="gettext">org.gnome.Characters</translation>
   <content_rating type="oars-1.1"/>
   <releases>
+    <release version="40.beta" date="2021-02-13"/>
     <release version="3.32.1" date="2019-04-08"/>
   </releases>
 </component>