diff --git a/LinkTitles.php b/LinkTitles.php
index 0ef03ee..5741928 100755
--- a/LinkTitles.php
+++ b/LinkTitles.php
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
     'name'           => 'LinkTitles',
     'author'         => '[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Bovender Daniel Kraus]', 
     'url'            => 'https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkTitles',
-    'version'        => '2.3.1',
+    'version'        => '2.4.0',
     'descriptionmsg' => 'linktitles-desc'
     );
 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 567b468..0a5b139 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+LinkTitles 2.4.0: 2014-06-06
+* Prevent linking to self via redirects.
+* Prevent linking inside <pre>, <html>, and <script> tags.
+* Prevent linking inside attributes of div and span tags as well as in style
+  and class tags (e.g., in Wiki tables).
+* Increase performance in smart mode.
+* Implement batch-processing features (special page for sysops and
+  maintenance script)
+* Source code is now fully documented.
+
 LinkTitles 2.3.1: 2013-08-29
 * Fix bug introduced with 2.3.0 that prevented the extension from working...
 
@@ -95,4 +105,4 @@ LinkTitles 0.0.2: 2012-05-20
 LinkTitles 0.0.1: 2012-05-20
 * Initial release.
 
-# vim: tw=76:fo=tqn:flp=^\*\s 
+# vim: tw=76:fo=tqn:flp=^\\*\\s+ 
diff --git a/gh-pages b/gh-pages
index a18c05f..5c3bdd5 160000
--- a/gh-pages
+++ b/gh-pages
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit a18c05f64aa736d933e3b5ab8b63ffeb57ad2d94
+Subproject commit 5c3bdd596d611059d57a55aa371ee78a82eb0e08
