diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b6c7432..b2c2000 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 name = "tree-sitter-openscad"
 description = "openscad grammar for the tree-sitter parsing library"
-version = "0.4.2"
+version = "0.5.0"
 keywords = ["incremental", "parsing", "openscad"]
 categories = ["parsing", "text-editors"]
 authors = ["Ian Boll <mainbollian@gmail.com>"]
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f998e52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+## Version 0.5.0
+
+Features / Behavior Changes:
+- different float and decimal (integer) nodes, now under supertype number
+- expressions now have a public supertype node, called expression
+- literals now have a public supertype node, called literal
+- special variables (e.g. $preview) now use an inner identifier node to store their name
+- function parameters now have their own node type to support certain syntax
+  highlighting patterns
+
+Bugfixes:
+- stopped accepting backslash line continuations
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 77b7f62..737183d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "tree-sitter-openscad",
-  "version": "0.4.2",
+  "version": "0.5.0",
   "description": "OpenSCAD grammar for tree-sitter",
   "main": "bindings/node",
   "keywords": [