diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: rain
 Title: Reference-based Ancestry INference
-Version: 0.4.1.9000
+Version: 0.5.0
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Mickaël",
              family = "Canouil",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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-# rain (development version)
+# rain 0.5.0
 
 ## Breaking Changes