Release version 4.8.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index fcff9c3..bb72d67 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+Version 4.8 - October 3, 2016
+
+	* Feature: QSFP Plus/QSFP28 Diagnostics Information Support
+	* Feature: Enhancing link mode bits to support 25G/50G/100G
+	* Feature: add support for 1000BaseX and missing 10G link mode
+	* Fixes: address Coverity issues 1363118 - 1363125
+
 Version 4.6 - June 26, 2016
 
 	* Feature: Support register dump on Intel X550 NICs (-d option)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 991bfac..a4b88cb 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
-AC_INIT(ethtool, 4.6, netdev@vger.kernel.org)
+AC_INIT(ethtool, 4.8, netdev@vger.kernel.org)
 AC_PREREQ(2.52)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([ethtool.c])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([gnu])
diff --git a/ethtool.8.in b/ethtool.8.in
index 376831d..9631847 100644
--- a/ethtool.8.in
+++ b/ethtool.8.in
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
 .  hy \\n(HY
 ..
 .
-.TH ETHTOOL 8 "June 2016" "Ethtool version @VERSION@"
+.TH ETHTOOL 8 "October 2016" "Ethtool version @VERSION@"
 .SH NAME
 ethtool \- query or control network driver and hardware settings
 .