[gnome-characters] Prepare release 42.alpha

[Christopher Davis <christopherdavis src gnome org>]

commit 984309ebaac3f0dcc1e2b9bb7699f4e4aae3ef3b
Author: Christopher Davis <christopherdavis gnome org>
Date:   Tue Jan 11 15:45:57 2022 -0800

    Prepare release 42.alpha

 NEWS                                     | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 data/org.gnome.Characters.appdata.xml.in | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+)
---
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 659d1a7..acf84d0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@
+42.alpha
+===========
+
+Characters 42.alpha comes with a port to GTK4 and libadwaita. It has
+gained support for the new dark style preference via libadwaita.
+
+* Translation updates:
+ - Basque
+ - Croatian
+ - Friulian
+ - Galician
+ - Hebrew
+ - Icelandic
+ - Indonesian
+ - Latvian
+ - Lithuanian
+ - Occitan (post 1500)
+ - Portuguese
+ - Portuguese (Brazil)
+ - Russian
+ - Slovak
+ - Spanish
+ - Ukrainian
+
 41.0
 =======
 
diff --git a/data/org.gnome.Characters.appdata.xml.in b/data/org.gnome.Characters.appdata.xml.in
index 97df2be..6d77977 100644
--- a/data/org.gnome.Characters.appdata.xml.in
+++ b/data/org.gnome.Characters.appdata.xml.in
@@ -33,6 +33,28 @@
   <translation type="gettext">org.gnome.Characters</translation>
   <content_rating type="oars-1.1"/>
   <releases>
+    <release version="42.alpha" date="2022-01-11">
+      <p>Characters 42.alpha comes with a port to GTK4 and libadwaita. It has gained support for the new 
dark style preference via libadwaita.</p>
+      <p>Characters 42.alpha also comes with updated translations for the following locales:</p>
+      <ul>
+        <li>Basque</li>
+        <li>Croatian</li>
+        <li>Friulian</li>
+        <li>Galician</li>
+        <li>Hebrew</li>
+        <li>Icelandic</li>
+        <li>Indonesian</li>
+        <li>Latvian</li>
+        <li>Lithuanian</li>
+        <li>Occitan (post 1500)</li>
+        <li>Portuguese</li>
+        <li>Portuguese (Brazil)</li>
+        <li>Russian</li>
+        <li>Slovak</li>
+        <li>Spanish</li>
+        <li>Ukrainian</li>
+      </ul>
+    </release>
     <release version="41.0" date="2021-09-21">
       <p>Characters 41 comes with a fix so that the close button shows on the sidebar at mobile sizes.</p>
       <p>Characters 41 also comes with updated translations for the following locales:</p>