diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: datawizard
 Title: Easy Data Wrangling and Statistical Transformations
-Version: 0.7.1.15
+Version: 0.8.0
 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
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# datawizard (devel)
+# datawizard 0.8.0
 
 BREAKING CHANGES
 
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
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--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -8,3 +8,8 @@ We checked 16 reverse dependencies, comparing R CMD check results across CRAN an
 
  * We saw 0 new problems
  * We failed to check 0 packages
+
+## Other comments
+
+This release fixes the issue with `package_version()` reported by Kurt Hornik
+on June 14th.