diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: valr
 Title: Genome Interval Arithmetic
-Version: 0.6.8.9000
+Version: 0.7.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Jay", "Hesselberth", , "jay.hesselberth@cuanschutz.edu", role = c("aut"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6299-179X")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# valr (development version)
+# valr 0.7.0
 
 * `read_bed` and related functions now automatically calculate the fields. Use of `n_fields` was deprecated.