diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5fb10df34..da7f4cb7d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2021-10-28 Philippe Doussot <douphi@free.fr>
+
+	Release change
+	* Application cannot be started with JDK 13 - AWTSecurityManager was removed : Backport of #438 by https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/IcedTea-Web/pull/792
+
 2021-05-27 Philippe Doussot <douphi@free.fr>
 
         Release changes
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3593bb4c5..6ca851f05 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ GX  - http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=X
 
 CVE-XXXX-YYYY: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=XXXX-YYYY
 
+New in release 1.8.8 (2021-10-28):
+* Application cannot be started with JDK 13 - AWTSecurityManager was removed / Backport of https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/IcedTea-Web/pull/438 fix https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/IcedTea-Web/issues/437
 
 New in release 1.8.7 (2021-05-27):
 * Backport of https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/IcedTea-Web/pull/467 fix https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/IcedTea-Web/issues/89
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a618f4389..b6710ed93 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT([icedtea-web],[1.8.7],[distro-pkg-dev@openjdk.java.net], [icedtea-web], [http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web])
+AC_INIT([icedtea-web],[1.8.8],[distro-pkg-dev@openjdk.java.net], [icedtea-web], [http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.9 tar-pax foreign])
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile netx.manifest])
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([enable])