diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a3dec142e..d30fcc32f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,17 @@
 strongswan-4.2.14
 -----------------
 
--
+- The new server-side EAP RADIUS plugin (--enable-eap-radius)
+  relays EAP messages to and from a RADIUS server. Succesfully
+  tested with with a freeradius server using EAP-MD5 and EAP-SIM.
+
+- ASN.1 to time_t conversion caused a time wrap-around for
+  dates after Jan 18 03:14:07 UTC 2038 on 32-bit platforms.
+  As a workaround such dates are set to the maximum representable
+  time, i.e. Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038.
+
+- Distinguished Names containing wildcards (*) are not sent in the
+  IDr payload anymore. 
 
 
 strongswan-4.2.13
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 5d9c256ca..a1bc2cc83 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ dnl ===========================
 dnl  initialize & set some vars
 dnl ===========================
 
-AC_INIT(strongSwan,4.2.14)
+AC_INIT(strongSwan,4.2.14rc3)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(tar-ustar)
 AC_C_BIGENDIAN
 AC_SUBST(confdir, '${sysconfdir}')