diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: oolong
 Title: Create Validation Tests for Automated Content Analysis
-Version: 0.6.2
+Version: 0.7.0
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Chung-hong", family = "Chan", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "chainsawtiney@gmail.com", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6232-7530")),
     person(given = "Marius", family = "Sältzer", role = c("aut"), email = "msaeltze@mail.uni-mannheim.de", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8604-4666")))
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-# oolong 0.6.2 (development)
+# oolong 0.7.0
+
+* CRAN release
+
+# oolong 0.6.2
 
 * Add content for MH 
 * Use `icr` for the calculation of Krippendorff's Alpha