[polari] Bump version to 41.rc

[Marge Bot <marge-bot src gnome org>]

commit 236b8c556b26b46bcba227eeb7b3763ca382ebe3
Author: Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org>
Date:   Fri Sep 3 04:16:19 2021 +0200

    Bump version to 41.rc
    
    Update NEWS.
    
    Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/polari/-/merge_requests/226>

 NEWS                                         | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 data/appdata/org.gnome.Polari.appdata.xml.in | 10 +++++-----
 meson.build                                  |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index cb696335..91821365 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,23 @@
+41.rc
+=====
+* Prepare for GTK4 [Florian, ranfdev; !198, !199, !212, !215, !225]
+* Support Soup 3 [Florian; !207]
+* Replace custom logging with console module [Florian; !214]
+* Fix pasting text files [Florian; !217]
+* Put status message on the left [William; !223]
+* Improve chat log appearance [Florian; !224, !227]
+* Port to GTK4 [Florian; !228, !232, !234, !235]
+* Misc. bug fixes and cleanups [Florian, scootergrisen; !197, !200, !181, !201,
+  !202, !146, !67, !203, !204, !205, !206, !208, !209, !211, !210, !213, !216,
+  !218, !220, !229, !230, !231, !233]
+
+Contributors:
+  Yuri Chornoivan, William Cordova, Asier Sarasua Garmendia, Anders Jonsson,
+  Florian Müllner, Andika Triwidada, ranfdev, scootergrisen, Marek Černocký
+
+Translators:
+  Alexey Rubtsov [ru]
+
 40.0 — “You Need a Boyfriend, Not a Person”
 ===========================================
 * Promisify async operations [Florian; !169]
diff --git a/data/appdata/org.gnome.Polari.appdata.xml.in b/data/appdata/org.gnome.Polari.appdata.xml.in
index 5b24a394..dce0bf6e 100644
--- a/data/appdata/org.gnome.Polari.appdata.xml.in
+++ b/data/appdata/org.gnome.Polari.appdata.xml.in
@@ -63,14 +63,14 @@
   </requires>
   <translation type="gettext">polari</translation>
   <releases>
-    <release version="40.0" date="2021-06-25">
+    <release version="41.rc" type="development" date="2021-09-04">
       <description>
         <p>
-          Polari belatedly joins the GNOME 40 fun, with a small but fine release:
+          A shiny new Polari release:
           <ul>
-            <li>Allow /join without '#' prefix</li>
-            <li>Add Libera.Chat and others to predefined networks</li>
-            <li>Keep scroll position when loading extra logs</li>
+            <li>User interface now uses GTK4</li>
+            <li>Improved chat log appearance</li>
+            <li>Fixed pasting of text files</li>
           </ul>
         </p>
       </description>
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 4ab3734c..351768fc 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('polari', 'c',
-  version: '40.0',
+  version: '41.rc',
   meson_version: '>= 0.53.0',
   license: 'GPL2+'
 )