[gnome-characters] Release 40.0

[Christopher Davis <christopherdavis src gnome org>]

commit 8fde0572d3eaa19166ec139ef4f2c1d168404e95
Author: Christopher Davis <christopherdavis gnome org>
Date:   Sat Mar 20 16:53:34 2021 -0700

    Release 40.0

 NEWS                                     | 16 ++++++++++-
 data/org.gnome.Characters.appdata.xml.in | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 meson.build                              |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ddbfadb..9ec6267 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,27 +1,41 @@
-40.beta
+40.0
 =======
 
 Characters has received a visual upgrade, and is now able to be used across
 mobile and desktop form factors.
 
 * Translation updates:
+ - Basque
  - Bokmål, Norwegian
  - Catalan
+ - Chinese (China)
+ - Croatian
+ - Czech
  - Dutch
  - Esperanto
+ - Finnish
+ - French
+ - Friulian
  - Galician
  - Hebrew
  - Hungarian
+ - Indonesian
  - Italian
  - Japanese
  - Kazakh
  - Kurdish, Central
+ - Lithuanian
  - Panjabi
+ - Persian
+ - Polish
  - Portuguese
  - Portuguese (Brazil)
  - Romanian
+ - Serbian
  - Slovenian
+ - Spanish
  - Swedish
+ - Turkish
  - Ukrainian
 
 3.34.0
diff --git a/data/org.gnome.Characters.appdata.xml.in b/data/org.gnome.Characters.appdata.xml.in
index f73021c..145ad89 100644
--- a/data/org.gnome.Characters.appdata.xml.in
+++ b/data/org.gnome.Characters.appdata.xml.in
@@ -33,7 +33,52 @@
   <translation type="gettext">org.gnome.Characters</translation>
   <content_rating type="oars-1.1"/>
   <releases>
-    <release version="40.beta" date="2021-02-13"/>
+    <release version="40.0" date="2021-03-20">
+      <p>Characters has received a visual upgrade, and is now able to be used across mobile and desktop form 
factors.</p>
+      <p>Characters 40 also comes with updated translations for the following locales:</p>
+      <ul>
+        <li>Bangla (India)</li>
+        <li>Basque</li>
+        <li>Bokmål, Norwegian</li>
+        <li>Catalan</li>
+        <li>Chinese (China)</li>
+        <li>Chinese (Taiwan)</li>
+        <li>Croatian</li>
+        <li>Czech</li>
+        <li>Danish</li>
+        <li>Dutch</li>
+        <li>English (United Kingdom)</li>
+        <li>Esperanto</li>
+        <li>Finnish</li>
+        <li>French</li>
+        <li>Friulian</li>
+        <li>Galician</li>
+        <li>German</li>
+        <li>Greek, Modern (1453-)</li>
+        <li>Hebrew</li>
+        <li>Hungarian</li>
+        <li>Indonesian</li>
+        <li>Italian</li>
+        <li>Japanese</li>
+        <li>Kazakh</li>
+        <li>Korean</li>
+        <li>Latvian</li>
+        <li>Lithuanian</li>
+        <li>Panjabi</li>
+        <li>Persian</li>
+        <li>Polish</li>
+        <li>Portuguese</li>
+        <li>Portuguese (Brazil)</li>
+        <li>Romanian</li>
+        <li>Serbian</li>
+        <li>Slovak</li>
+        <li>Slovenian</li>
+        <li>Spanish</li>
+        <li>Swedish</li>
+        <li>Turkish</li>
+        <li>Ukrainian</li>
+      </ul>
+    </release>
     <release version="3.32.1" date="2019-04-08"/>
   </releases>
 </component>
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 2f8760e..8e9a0d1 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project(
   'gnome-characters', 'c',
-  version: '40.rc',
+  version: '40.0',
   license: ['BSD3', 'GPL2+'],
   default_options: 'buildtype=debugoptimized',
   meson_version: '>= 0.46.0'