diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: mistyR
 Type: Package
 Title: Multiview Intercellular SpaTial modeling framework
-Version: 1.8.1
+Version: 1.10.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person(given = "Jovan",
            family = "Tanevski",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# mistyR 1.9.x
+
 # mistyR 1.8.1
 
 - Requires dplyr >=1.1.0 due to change of sorting order in arrange()