From 10dd8b4575aa49ee58b972d059b0dff069f7bf89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cosimo Lupo <clupo@google.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:30:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Release 4.50.0

---
 Lib/fontTools/__init__.py | 2 +-
 NEWS.rst                  | 3 +++
 setup.cfg                 | 2 +-
 setup.py                  | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py b/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
index 81b28f930..ead49e26c 100644
--- a/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ from fontTools.misc.loggingTools import configLogger
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-version = __version__ = "4.49.1.dev0"
+version = __version__ = "4.50.0"
 
 __all__ = ["version", "log", "configLogger"]
diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 979d9e209..4546e8b30 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+4.50.0 (released 2024-03-15)
+----------------------------
+
 - [pens] Added decomposing filter pens that draw components as regular contours (#3460).
 - [instancer] Drop explicit no-op axes from TupleVariations (#3457).
 - [cu2qu/ufo] Return set of modified glyph names from fonts_to_quadratic (#3456).
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 30b1ca9d7..77cbe60aa 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 4.49.1.dev0
+current_version = 4.50.0
 commit = True
 tag = False
 tag_name = {new_version}
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fb3ed19ea..2bdce3a61 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ if ext_modules:
 
 setup_params = dict(
     name="fonttools",
-    version="4.49.1.dev0",
+    version="4.50.0",
     description="Tools to manipulate font files",
     author="Just van Rossum",
     author_email="just@letterror.com",