diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: luajr
 Type: Package
 Title: 'LuaJIT' Scripting
-Version: 0.1.7.9000
+Version: 0.1.8
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Mike", "Pall", role = c("aut", "cph"), 
         comment = "Author of the embedded LuaJIT compiler"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# luajr (development version)
+# luajr 0.1.8
 
 -   The Lua "io" library is now capable of getting input from the R console
     (e.g. with io.read()) -- previously, trying this would cause R to hang