diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: ggh4x
 Title: Hacks for 'ggplot2'
-Version: 0.2.7.9000
+Version: 0.2.8
 Authors@R: 
     person(given = "Teun",
            family = "van den Brand",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# ggh4x (development version)
+# ggh4x 0.2.8
 
 This is a small release fixing a NOTE by request. In addition, there are two
 bugfixes.