[gnome-desktop/alatiera/42.alpha] 42.alpha

[Jordan Petridis <jpetridis src gnome org>]

commit 1418e3eaed113f1dd64ca56d3ccbf23d7bd0b343
Author: Jordan Petridis <jordan centricular com>
Date:   Tue Jan 11 16:13:43 2022 +0200

    42.alpha

 NEWS        | 9 +++++++++
 meson.build | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6b818143..b605d6a8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+============
+Version 42.alpha
+============
+
+- Introduce gnome-desktop-4
+- Split libgnome-desktop into three, gnome-desktop, gnome-rr, gnome-bg
+- Refactor gnome-gettext-portable.h
+- Translation updates
+
 ============
 Version 41.1
 ============
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 99073599..2805bc16 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project('gnome-desktop', 'c',
   meson_version: '>= 0.56.2',
-  version: '41.1',
+  version: '42.alpha',
   license: ['GPL-2.0-or-later', 'LGPL-2.1-or-later'],
   default_options: [
     'c_std=gnu99',
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ libversion = '1.0.0'
 soversion = libversion.split('.')[0]
 
 # Compatibility versions for libgnome-desktop-3
-compat_libversion = '19.1.7'
+compat_libversion = '19.2.0'
 compat_soversion = compat_libversion.split('.')[0]
 
 gdk_pixbuf_req = '>= 2.36.5'