diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 63504adf3f9..5c1e834d7cc 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
-libmongoc 1.29.0 (unreleased)
-=============================
+libmongoc 1.29.0
+================
+
+Improvements:
 
+  * Retry KMS requests on transient errors.
 
 Platform Support:
 
@@ -15,6 +18,16 @@ Deprecated:
 Notes:
 
   * Raise required version of libmongocrypt to 1.12.0 to support In-Use Encryption (corresponds to the CMake option: `ENABLE_CLIENT_SIDE_ENCRYPTION`).
+  * A future minor release will raise the minimum supported MongoDB Server version from 4.0 to 4.2. This is in accordance with [MongoDB Software Lifecycle Schedules](https://www.mongodb.com/legal/support-policy/lifecycles). **Support for MongoDB Server 4.0 will be dropped in a future release!**
+
+Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this release.
+
+  * Kevin Albertson
+  * Ezra Chung
+  * Micah Scott
+  * Adrian Dole
+  * Andreas Braun
+  * Joshua Siegel
 
 libmongoc 1.28.1
 ================
diff --git a/docs/dev/releasing.rst b/docs/dev/releasing.rst
index 3e33886cf16..ecb4718c99f 100644
--- a/docs/dev/releasing.rst
+++ b/docs/dev/releasing.rst
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ process.
    - [ ] Start Snyk Monitoring
    - [ ] Address and Report Vulnerabilities
    - [ ] Validate API Documentation
-   - [ ] Notify the PHP Driver Team
    - [ ] Get a GitHub API Token
    - [ ] Do the Release:
        - [ ] Start a Release Stopwatch (start time: HH:MM)
@@ -196,15 +195,6 @@ documentation has been added for every symbol listed here. If no new symbols are
 added, then the documentation is up-to-date.
 
 
-Notify the PHP Driver Team
-##########################
-
-The PHP driver team consumes the C driver directly and will want to know when a
-new release is coming so that they can identify regressions in the APIs used by
-the PHP driver. Consider requesting that the PHP team test the PHP driver
-against the new release version before the C release is tagged and published.
-
-
 .. _release.github-token:
 
 Get a GitHub API Token
@@ -396,8 +386,9 @@ required for it to succeed:
 Once these prerequesites are met, creating the release archive can be done using
 the :any:`+signed-release` target.::
 
-   $ ./tools/earthly.sh --artifact +signed-release/dist dist --sbom_branch=$RELEASE_BRANCH --version=$NEW_VERSION
+   $ ./tools/earthly.sh --artifact +signed-release/dist dist --sbom_branch=$SBOM_BRANCH --version=$NEW_VERSION
 
+.. note:: `$SBOM_BRANCH` must be ``master`` for a minor release, or ``$RELEASE_BRANCH`` for a patch release.
 .. note:: `$NEW_VERSION` must correspond to the Git tag created by the release.
 
 The above command will create a `dist/` directory in the working directory that
diff --git a/src/libbson/NEWS b/src/libbson/NEWS
index 9c2f8d47c97..950e1b2c3a0 100644
--- a/src/libbson/NEWS
+++ b/src/libbson/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-libbson 1.29.0 (Unreleased)
-===========================
+libbson 1.29.0
+==============
 
 Deprecated:
 
@@ -9,6 +9,21 @@ Deprecated:
   * `bson_atomic_*` and `bson_thrd_yield` functions.
   * `bson_as_json` and `bson_array_as_json` are deprecated due to producing non-portable Legacy Extended JSON. Prefer Canonical Extended JSON or Relaxed Extended JSON for portability. To continue using Legacy Extended JSON, use `bson_as_legacy_extended_json` and `bson_array_as_legacy_extended_json`.
 
+Fixes:
+
+  * Fix Relaxed Extended JSON encoding of dates after year 9999.
+
+Improvements:
+
+  * Improve performance of bson_utf8_escape_for_json
+
+Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this release.
+
+  * Kevin Albertson
+  * Micah Scott
+  * Ezra Chung
+  * Joshua Siegel
+
 libbson 1.28.1
 ==============