diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: clustermq
 Title: Evaluate Function Calls on HPC Schedulers (LSF, SGE, SLURM, PBS/Torque)
-Version: 0.9.6
+Version: 0.9.7
 Authors@R: c(
     person('Michael', 'Schubert', email='mschu.dev@gmail.com',
            role = c('aut', 'cre', 'cph'),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# git head
+# clustermq 0.9.7
 
 * Fix a bug where `BiocGenerics` could break template filling (#337)
-* Long deprecated automatic array splitting in `Q` has been removed
+* Remove deprecated automatic array splitting in `Q`
 
 # clustermq 0.9.6