[orca] Release prep

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanied src gnome org>]

commit 79364fbfb3efdd655a153253a0f517642c2d63fe
Author: Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>
Date:   Tue Feb 15 10:55:35 2022 +0100

    Release prep

 NEWS         | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 README.md    |  2 +-
 configure.ac |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8dbf1fcb5..2562240db 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,68 @@
+42.beta - 15 February 2022
+
+Web:
+
+* Fix several bugs in which we update our location silently when we
+  should instead announce it
+
+* Improve behavior during event flood of text-related events from
+  web apps
+
+* Attempt to work around object destruction during structural nav
+
+* Improve behavior of label ancestors of widgets
+
+General:
+
+* Fix bug causing accessing preferences to fail for esperanto
+
+* Handle apps going defunct during cleanup; more debugging
+
+* Handle exception when object is destroyed while getting text attributes
+
+* Try to handle error from mate-notification-daemon during window:create
+
+* Improve performance in gnome-shell
+
+* Improve presentation of all text becoming unselected during caret
+  navigation
+
+New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
+
+  bg              Bulgarian                 Alexander Shopov
+  ca              Catalan                   Jordi Mas i Hernandez
+  cs              Czech                     Marek Černocký
+  da              Danish                    Alan Mortensen
+  da              Danish                    Ask Hjorth Larsen
+  de              German                    Mario Blättermann
+  de              German                    Tim Sabsch
+  es              Spanish                   Daniel Mustieles
+  es              Spanish                   Francisco Javier Dorado
+  eu              Basque                    Asier Sarasua Garmendia
+  fi              Finnish                   Jiri Grönroos
+  fr              French                    Charles Monzat
+  gl              Galician                  Fran Dieguez
+  he              Hebrew                    Yaron Shahrabani
+  hu              Hungarian                 Attila Hammer
+  id              Indonesian                Kukuh Syafaat
+  it              Italian                   Milo Casagrande
+  kk              Kazakh                    Baurzhan Muftakhidinov
+  lv              Latvian                   Rūdolfs Mazurs
+  ne              Nepali                    Pawan Chitrakar
+  nl              Dutch                     Nathan Follens
+  oc              Occitan                   Quentin PAGÈS
+  pl              Polish                    Piotr Drąg
+  pt_BR           Brazilian Portuguese      Leônidas Araújo
+  pt_BR           Brazilian Portuguese      Tiago Casal
+  pt              Portuguese                Hugo Carvalho
+  ru              Russian                   Aleksandr Melman
+  sl              Slovenian                 Matej Urbančič
+  sv              Swedish                   Anders Jonsson
+  uk              Ukrainian                 Yuri Chornoivan
+  zh_CN           Chinese (China)           Boyuan Yang
+
+=========
+
 41.1 - 1 December 2021
 
 Web:
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b0966b707..fad9082e0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Orca v42.alpha
+# Orca v42.beta
 
 ## Introduction
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7b0b6003c..ec1b17c35 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-m4_define([orca_version], [42.alpha])
+m4_define([orca_version], [42.beta])
 
 m4_define(pygobject_required_version, 3.18)
 m4_define(atspi_required_version, 2.26)