diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: htmlwidgets
 Type: Package
 Title: HTML Widgets for R
-Version: 1.6.1.9000
+Version: 1.6.2
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Ramnath", "Vaidyanathan", role = c("aut", "cph")),
     person("Yihui", "Xie", role = c("aut")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-htmlwidgets 1.6.1.9000
+htmlwidgets 1.6.2
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 * Closed #452: `as.tag.htmlwidget()` now includes `...` in it's function signature (for compatibility with the `htmltools::as.tags` generic).