diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index e3c973b..63c3148 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@
 ^README\.Rmd$
 ^_pkgdown\.yml$
 ^pkgdown$
+^CRAN-SUBMISSION$
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 4399c5e..03b87b1 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: washdata
 Title: Urban Water and Sanitation Survey Dataset
-Version: 0.1.4
+Version: 0.1.4.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Ernest", "Guevarra", email = "ernestgmd@gmail.com", role =  c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Valid International", "", email = "office@validinternational.org", role = "cph"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 76ae63b..77c6719 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# washdata (development version)
+
 # washdata 0.1.4
 * general documentation and formatting updates