[orca] Release prep

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanied src gnome org>]

commit ec1bea9fe6aad46302b788332d7409ee79ea4880
Author: Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>
Date:   Mon Jul 12 12:19:59 2021 +0200

    Release prep

 NEWS         | 82 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 README.md    | 14 +++++------
 configure.ac |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4f0509f13..a6aa0f9ad 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,85 @@
+41.alpha - 12 July 2021
+
+General:
+
+ * Improve handling of accessible-event floods from apps
+
+ * Fix bug in announcing selected items in icon views
+
+Web:
+
+ * Improve recovery from destruction of current object
+
+ * Improve performance in response to caret-moved events
+
+ * Fix crash resulting from subtree becoming hidden
+
+ * Fix bug in toolbar browse-mode navigation
+
+ * Fix bug causing a live region event to be ignored
+
+ * Fix bug causing us to incorrectly switch to browse mode in VSCode
+
+ * Ensure we present caret-moved events after Alt+Tabbing into web app
+
+ * Don't repeat posinset and setsize for multi-line list items
+
+ * Don't announce unselected state of grid cells/rows in browse mode
+
+ * Don't announce row and column count when they are both 0
+
+ * Fix braille presentation of grid cell in browse mode
+
+ * Improve browse-mode navigation of trees and tree tables
+
+ * Eliminate some chattiness entering elements with a caption
+
+ * Prevent double-presentation of description for alerts
+
+Email:
+
+ * Fix regression presenting plain-text messages in Thunderbird
+
+ * Work around missing events from Evolution Add Accounts
+
+LibreOffice:
+
+ * Work around missing state-changed:focused event that caused
+   caret-moved events in documents to be ignored
+
+Speech:
+
+ * Ensure we enable/disable speech based on app-specific settings
+
+ * punctuation: Spell left/right_double_angle at level "most"
+
+ * Do not add mark within numbers (some synthesizers present numbers
+   incorrectly otherwise)
+
+ * Do not set language if it is empty (breaks output in older versions
+   of speech-dispatcher)
+
+Mouse Review:
+
+ * Check if we have Wnck in activate() so we don't spew errors
+
+ * Gracefully handle lack of pointer
+
+New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
+
+  es              Spanish                   Daniel Mustieles
+  es              Spanish                   Francisco Javier Dorado
+  fi              Finnish                   Jiri Grönroos
+  fr              French                    Charles Monzat
+  he              Hebrew                    Yaron Shahrabani
+  ne              Nepali                    Pawan Chitrakar
+  nl              Dutch                     Nathan Follens
+  oc              Occitan                   Quentin PAGÈS
+  pt_BR           Brazilian Portuguese      Tiago Casal
+  sv              Swedish                   Anders Jonsson
+
+=========
+
 40.0 - 19 March 2021
 
 New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 788a18a16..843b53e64 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Orca v40.1
+# Orca v41.alpha
 
 ## Introduction
 
@@ -14,15 +14,13 @@ AT-SPI include the GNOME GTK+ toolkit, the Java platform's Swing
 toolkit, OpenOffice/LibreOffice, Gecko, and WebKitGtk.  AT-SPI support
 for the KDE Qt toolkit is currently being pursued.
 
-See also <http://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca> for detailed English and Spanish
-information on Orca, including how to run Orca, how to communicate
-with the Orca user community, and where to log bugs and feature
-requests.
-
+See also <http://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca> for detailed information
+on Orca, including how to run Orca, how to communicate with the Orca user
+community, and where to log bugs and feature requests.
 
 ## Dependencies
 
-Orca v40.x is supported on GNOME 40.x only.  We highly suggest you
+Orca v41.x is supported on GNOME 41.x only.  We highly suggest you
 use the latest releases of GNOME because they contain accessibility
 infrastructure and application bug fixes that help Orca work better.
 
@@ -40,7 +38,7 @@ Orca also has the following dependencies:
 * gstreamer-1.0    - GStreamer - Streaming media framework (optional)
 
 You are strongly encouraged to also have the latest stable versions
-of AT-SPI2 and ATK for the GNOME 40.x release.
+of AT-SPI2 and ATK for the GNOME 41.x release.
 
 
 ## NOTE FOR BRLTTY USERS:
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 656365f9f..7ab4d7293 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-m4_define([orca_version], [40.1])
+m4_define([orca_version], [41.alpha])
 
 m4_define(pygobject_required_version, 3.18)
 m4_define(atspi_required_version, 2.26)