diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: waldo
 Title: Find Differences Between R Objects
-Version: 0.5.2
+Version: 0.5.2.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Posit Software, PBC", role = c("cph", "fnd"))
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# waldo (development version)
+
 # waldo 0.5.2
 
 * Fixes for upcoming R-devel changes.