[eog] Prepare for release 40.alpha

[Felix Riemann <friemann src gnome org>]

commit 8d79bdb39d9d42c41886f93a5c9dd3f35332628f
Author: Felix Riemann <friemann gnome org>
Date:   Mon Jan 11 21:39:31 2021 +0100

    Prepare for release 40.alpha
    
    Despite moving to major version 40 the API still remains at 3.0

 NEWS                    | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 data/eog.appdata.xml.in |  6 ++++--
 meson.build             |  4 ++--
 3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4ee537ab..91217f5e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,36 @@
+Version 40.alpha
+----------------
+Bug fixes:
+
+ !72, build: Centralize path absolutization (Jan Tojnar)
+ !77, Refresh thumbnail when delete image from file manager (Krifa75)
+ !78, Add G_FILE_MONITOR_EVENT_RENAMED monitor to update the view when
+      only one image (Krifa75)
+ !81, Free file_list if reopen in single-window (Krifa75)
+ !84, Change Readme to Markdown (Claudius Ellsel)
+ !85, Fix several image reference counting issues (Felix Riemann)
+ !87, Change "<app>Gimp</app>" to "<app>GIMP</app>" (scootergrisen)
+ !88, Change <app>image viewer</app> to <app>Image Viewer</app> (scootergrisen)
+ #154, Assertion failed when rotate and save the same image multiple times
+ #795112, Straighten out <app> and <gui> usage (Andre Klapper)
+
+New and updated translations:
+
+- Jordi Mas [ca]
+- Yosef Or Boczko [he]
+- Kjartan Maraas [nb]
+- Hugo Carvalho [pt]
+- Cheng-Chia Tseng [zh_TW]
+
+New and updated manual translations
+
+- Jordi Mas, Miquel-Àngel Burgos i Fradeja [ca]
+- scootergrisen [da]
+- Charles Monzat [fr]
+- Andika Triwidada [id]
+- Anders Jonsson [sv]
+- Yuri Chornoivan [uk]
+
 Version 3.38.0
 --------------
 
diff --git a/data/eog.appdata.xml.in b/data/eog.appdata.xml.in
index deda3a02..f3db2971 100644
--- a/data/eog.appdata.xml.in
+++ b/data/eog.appdata.xml.in
@@ -36,11 +36,13 @@
     <kudo>UserDocs</kudo>
   </kudos>
   <releases>
-    <release version="3.38.0" date="2020-09-12">
+    <release version="40.alpha" date="2021-01-11" type="development" />
+    <release version="3.38.1" date="2020-11-21">
       <description>
-        <p>Eye of GNOME 3.38.0 is the latest stable version of Eye of GNOME, and it contains all the 
features and bugfixes introduced since our 3.36 release.</p>
+        <p>Eye of GNOME 3.38.1 is the latest stable version of Eye of GNOME, and it contains all the 
features and bugfixes introduced since our 3.38 release.</p>
       </description>
     </release>
+    <release version="3.38.0" date="2020-09-12" />
     <release version="3.36.3" date="2020-07-04" />
     <release version="3.36.2" date="2020-04-25" />
     <release version="3.36.1" date="2020-04-09" />
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 41ffcb63..913b655f 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project(
   'eog', 'c',
-  version: '3.38.1',
+  version: '40.alpha',
   license: 'GPL2+',
   default_options: 'buildtype=debugoptimized',
   meson_version: '>= 0.50.0',
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ eog_version = meson.project_version()
 version_array = eog_version.split('.')
 eog_major_version = version_array[0].to_int()
 
-eog_api_version = '@0@.0'.format(eog_major_version)
+eog_api_version = '3.0'
 eog_api_name = '@0@-@1@'.format(meson.project_name(), eog_api_version)
 
 eog_gir_ns = 'Eog'