diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: openxlsx2
 Title: Read, Write and Edit 'xlsx' Files
-Version: 0.7.0.9000
+Version: 0.7.1
 Language: en-US
 Authors@R: c(
   person("Jordan Mark", "Barbone", email = "jmbarbone@gmail.com", role = "aut", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-9788-3628")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
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-# openxlsx2 (development version)
+# openxlsx2 0.7.1
 
 ## New features
 
@@ -110,12 +110,12 @@
     * `get_cell_style()`
     * `set_cell_style()`
     * `wb_conditional_formatting()`
-  
+
   * remove deprecated arguments
     * `xy` argument for `write_data_table()` interacting functions
     * `file` from `xl_open()`
     * `definedName` from `wb_to_df()` interacting functions
-  
+
   * deprecating function
     * `get_named_regions()` for `wb_get_named_regions()`