diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
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 Package: arules
-Version: 1.5-3.1
-Date: 2017-xx-xx
+Version: 1.5-4
+Date: 2017-10-12
 Title: Mining Association Rules and Frequent Itemsets
 Authors@R: c(person("Michael", "Hahsler", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"),
 		email = "mhahsler@lyle.smu.edu"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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-# arules 1.5-3.1 (xx/xx/2017)
+# arules 1.5-4 (10/12/2017)
 
 ## New Features
 * Improved speed for read.transactions with format = "single" significantly.