diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 3c71a6343..a9e32fe1a 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: datawizard
 Title: Easy Data Wrangling and Statistical Transformations
-Version: 0.8.0.5
+Version: 0.8.0.6
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Indrajeet", "Patil", , "patilindrajeet.science@gmail.com", role = "aut",
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1995-6531", Twitter = "@patilindrajeets")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 529ec1398..624055657 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ NEW FUNCTIONS
 * `rowmean_n()`, to compute row means if row contains at least `n` non-missing
   values.
 
+* `means_by_group()`, to compute mean values of vbariables, grouped by levels
+  of specified factors.
+
 CHANGES
 
 * `recode_into()` gains an `overwrite` argument to skip overwriting already