diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: wk
 Title: Lightweight Well-Known Geometry Parsing
-Version: 0.7.0.9000
+Version: 0.7.1
 Authors@R: 
     c(
       person(given = "Dewey",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# wk (development version)
+# wk 0.7.1
 
 * Fix implicit reliance on error `as.data.frame.default()`,
   which no longer occurs in r-devel (#166).