[gnome-robots/release-40-alpha] Release 40.alpha

[Andrey Kutejko <akutejko src gnome org>]

commit 89937da10d43054fb8f110138dc0928a4996f795
Author: Andrey Kutejko <andy128k gmail com>
Date:   Thu Jan 14 22:40:13 2021 +0100

    Release 40.alpha

 NEWS                                 | 6 ++++++
 data/org.gnome.Robots.appdata.xml.in | 1 +
 meson.build                          | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
---
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8bb0771..ffbe799 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+40.alpha - January 14, 2021
+===========================
+
+- Rewrite in Vala
+- Updated translations
+
 3.38.0 - September 11, 2020
 ===========================
 
diff --git a/data/org.gnome.Robots.appdata.xml.in b/data/org.gnome.Robots.appdata.xml.in
index 899d011..b649d54 100644
--- a/data/org.gnome.Robots.appdata.xml.in
+++ b/data/org.gnome.Robots.appdata.xml.in
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
     <id>gnome-robots.desktop</id>
   </provides>
   <releases>
+    <release version="40.alpha" date="2021-01-14" />
     <release version="3.38.0" date="2020-09-11" />
     <release version="3.37.90" date="2020-08-06" />
     <release version="3.37.3" date="2020-07-02" />
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index df68404..cbd050f 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gnome-robots', ['vala', 'c'],
-    version: '3.38.0')
+    version: '40.alpha')
 
 python3 = import('python3')
 gnome = import('gnome')