diff --git a/IDMETA b/IDMETA
index e6ca2b30..e91f4c91 100755
--- a/IDMETA
+++ b/IDMETA
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 DEBIAN_DIST="bullseye buster stretch"
 UBUNTU_DIST="jammy focal bionic xenial trusty"
 CENTOS_DIST="centos7 centos8"
-VERSION=5.34.0
+VERSION=5.34.1
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b791c9ba..d4cb9207 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+--- 5.34.1 2024/06/18
+
+Build: fix implicit atoi/stdlib includes (libxml >2.12) #104
+
+Build: fix libxml2 2.13 reorganizing headers #102
+
+Build: fix always true pointer checks #108
+see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1073314
+
+Build: update m4 to fix cross-builds
+see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1058064
+
 --- 5.34.0 2023/01/12
 
 Fixes to Solr response decoding.