diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: longears
 Title: A Fast and Fully-Featured 'RabbitMQ' Client
-Version: 0.2.3
+Version: 0.2.4
 Authors@R: c(
   person("Aaron", "Jacobs", role = c("aut", "cre"),
          email = "atheriel@gmail.com"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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-# longears 0.2.3.9000
+# longears 0.2.4
 
 - Fixes handling of connection failures in `amqp_listen()`. Previously if you
   got booted off the cluster during the acknowledgement phase the connection