diff --git a/README b/README
index 8187d95df3f..38de64ff128 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Copyright (C) 2001-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end of the file for license conditions.
 
 
-This directory tree holds version 29.0.92 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
+This directory tree holds version 29.1 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
 customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
 
 The file INSTALL in this directory says how to build and install GNU
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index df74f8cd2f8..ad1068a70ad 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ dnl  along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.65])
 dnl Note this is parsed by (at least) make-dist and lisp/cedet/ede/emacs.el.
-AC_INIT([GNU Emacs], [29.0.92], [bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org], [],
+AC_INIT([GNU Emacs], [29.1], [bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org], [],
   [https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/])
 
 dnl Set emacs_config_options to the options of 'configure', quoted for the shell,
diff --git a/msdos/sed2v2.inp b/msdos/sed2v2.inp
index c26b79ca7db..c5d8e1a4919 100644
--- a/msdos/sed2v2.inp
+++ b/msdos/sed2v2.inp
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 /^#undef PACKAGE_NAME/s/^.*$/#define PACKAGE_NAME ""/
 /^#undef PACKAGE_STRING/s/^.*$/#define PACKAGE_STRING ""/
 /^#undef PACKAGE_TARNAME/s/^.*$/#define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""/
-/^#undef PACKAGE_VERSION/s/^.*$/#define PACKAGE_VERSION "29.0.92"/
+/^#undef PACKAGE_VERSION/s/^.*$/#define PACKAGE_VERSION "29.1"/
 /^#undef SYSTEM_TYPE/s/^.*$/#define SYSTEM_TYPE "ms-dos"/
 /^#undef HAVE_DECL_GETENV/s/^.*$/#define HAVE_DECL_GETENV 1/
 /^#undef SYS_SIGLIST_DECLARED/s/^.*$/#define SYS_SIGLIST_DECLARED 1/
diff --git a/nt/README.W32 b/nt/README.W32
index 18b6efb30cd..9c3c675cbb4 100644
--- a/nt/README.W32
+++ b/nt/README.W32
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Copyright (C) 2001-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end of the file for license conditions.
 
-		Emacs version 29.0.92 for MS-Windows
+		Emacs version 29.1 for MS-Windows
 
   This README file describes how to set up and run a precompiled
   distribution of the latest version of GNU Emacs for MS-Windows.  You