diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ca9997a5..768d11ad 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: curl
 Type: Package
 Title: A Modern and Flexible Web Client for R
-Version: 4.1.1
+Version: 4.2
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Jeroen", "Ooms", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "jeroen@berkeley.edu",
       comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4035-0289")),
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index cc1cc5f6..8a48a302 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-4.1.1
- - Fix for very old versions of libcurl. Build was broken in 4.1 on RHEL / CentOS.
+4.2
+ - Fix for old versions of libcurl (build was broken in 4.1 on RHEL / CentOS).
  - Add hostname to timeout errors (#190)
 
 4.1