diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8c890b2c8..d827c6744 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,61 @@
+What's new in Sudo 1.9.6
+
+ * Fixed a sudo_sendlog compilation problem with the AIX xlC compiler.
+
+ * Fixed a regression introduced in sudo 1.9.4 where the
+   --disable-root-mailer configure option had no effect.
+
+ * Added a --disable-leaks configure option that avoids some
+   memory leaks on exit that would otherwise occur.  This is intended
+   to be used with development tools that measure memory leaks.  It
+   is not safe to be use in production at this time.
+
+ * Plugged some memory leaks identified by oss-fuzz and ASAN.
+
+ * Fixed the handling of sudoOptions for an LDAP sudoRole that
+   contains multiple sudoCommands.  Previously, some of the options
+   would only be applied to the first sudoCommand.
+
+ * Fixed a potential out of bounds read in the parsing of NOTBEFORE
+   and NOTAFTER sudoers command options (and their LDAP equivalents).
+
+ * The parser used for reading I/O log JSON files is now more
+   resilient when processing invalid JSON.
+
+ * Fixed typos that prevented "make uninstall" from working.
+   GitHub issue #87.
+
+ * Fixed a regression introduced in sudo 1.9.4 where the last line
+   in a sudoers file might not have a terminating NUL character
+   added if no newline was present.
+
+ * Integrated oss-fuzz and LLVM's libFuzzer with sudo.  The new
+   --enable-fuzzer configure option can be combined with the
+   --enable-sanitizer option to build sudo with fuzzing support.
+   Multiple fuzz targets are available for fuzzing different parts
+   of sudo.  Fuzzers are built and tested via "make fuzz" or as part
+   of "make check" (even when sudo is not built with fuzzing support).
+   Fuzzing support currently requires the LLVM clang compiler (not gcc).
+
+ * Fixed the --enable-static-sudoers configure option.
+   GitHub issue #92.
+
+ * Fixed a potential out of bounds read sudo when is run by a user
+   with more groups than the value of "max_groups" in sudo.conf.
+
+ * Added an "admin_flag" sudoers option to make the use of the
+   ~/.sudo_as_admin_successful file configurable on systems where
+   sudo is build with the --enable-admin-flag configure option.
+   This mostly affects Ubuntu and its derivatives.
+
+ * The "max_groups" setting in sudo.conf is now limited to 1024.
+   This setting is obsolete and should no longer be needed.
+
+ * Fixed a bug in the tilde expansion of "CHROOT=dir" and "CWD=dir"
+   sudoers command options.  A path "~/foo" was expanded to
+   "/home/userfoo" instead of "/home/user/foo".  This also affects
+   the runchroot and runcwd Defaults settings.
+
 What's new in Sudo 1.9.5p2
 
  * Fixed sudo's setprogname(3) emulation on systems that don't
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 26a3c6c62..5adc17fa9 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
-# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71 for sudo 1.9.5p2.
+# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71 for sudo 1.9.6.
 #
 # Report bugs to <https://bugzilla.sudo.ws/>.
 #
@@ -621,8 +621,8 @@ MAKEFLAGS=
 # Identity of this package.
 PACKAGE_NAME='sudo'
 PACKAGE_TARNAME='sudo'
-PACKAGE_VERSION='1.9.5p2'
-PACKAGE_STRING='sudo 1.9.5p2'
+PACKAGE_VERSION='1.9.6'
+PACKAGE_STRING='sudo 1.9.6'
 PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='https://bugzilla.sudo.ws/'
 PACKAGE_URL=''
 
@@ -1614,7 +1614,7 @@ if test "$ac_init_help" = "long"; then
   # Omit some internal or obsolete options to make the list less imposing.
   # This message is too long to be a string in the A/UX 3.1 sh.
   cat <<_ACEOF
-\`configure' configures sudo 1.9.5p2 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
+\`configure' configures sudo 1.9.6 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
 
 Usage: $0 [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
 
@@ -1680,7 +1680,7 @@ fi
 
 if test -n "$ac_init_help"; then
   case $ac_init_help in
-     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of sudo 1.9.5p2:";;
+     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of sudo 1.9.6:";;
    esac
   cat <<\_ACEOF
 
@@ -1962,7 +1962,7 @@ fi
 test -n "$ac_init_help" && exit $ac_status
 if $ac_init_version; then
   cat <<\_ACEOF
-sudo configure 1.9.5p2
+sudo configure 1.9.6
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71
 
 Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -2619,7 +2619,7 @@ cat >config.log <<_ACEOF
 This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
 running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
 
-It was created by sudo $as_me 1.9.5p2, which was
+It was created by sudo $as_me 1.9.6, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71.  Invocation command line was
 
   $ $0$ac_configure_args_raw
@@ -30121,7 +30121,7 @@ cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<\_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
 # report actual input values of CONFIG_FILES etc. instead of their
 # values after options handling.
 ac_log="
-This file was extended by sudo $as_me 1.9.5p2, which was
+This file was extended by sudo $as_me 1.9.6, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71.  Invocation command line was
 
   CONFIG_FILES    = $CONFIG_FILES
@@ -30189,7 +30189,7 @@ ac_cs_config_escaped=`printf "%s\n" "$ac_cs_config" | sed "s/^ //; s/'/'\\\\\\\\
 cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
 ac_cs_config='$ac_cs_config_escaped'
 ac_cs_version="\\
-sudo config.status 1.9.5p2
+sudo config.status 1.9.6
 configured by $0, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71,
   with options \\"\$ac_cs_config\\"
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index be23c28a2..947abc187 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ dnl ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 dnl OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 dnl
 AC_PREREQ([2.59])
-AC_INIT([sudo], [1.9.5p2], [https://bugzilla.sudo.ws/], [sudo])
+AC_INIT([sudo], [1.9.6], [https://bugzilla.sudo.ws/], [sudo])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h pathnames.h])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/sudo.c])
 dnl