diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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 Package: plyr
 Title: Tools for Splitting, Applying and Combining Data
-Version: 1.8.8
+Version: 1.8.9
 Authors@R: 
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@rstudio.com", role = c("aut", "cre"))
 Description: A set of tools that solves a common set of problems: you need
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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-# plyr (development version)
+# plyr 1.8.9
 
 * Fixes for `R CMD check`