diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 8312be1..53ada17 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: arules
-Version: 1.6-0.1
-Date: 2018-xx-xx
+Version: 1.6-1
+Date: 2018-04-04
 Title: Mining Association Rules and Frequent Itemsets
 Authors@R: c(person("Michael", "Hahsler", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"),
 		email = "mhahsler@lyle.smu.edu"),
@@ -24,3 +24,4 @@ Copyright: The code for apriori and eclat in src/rapriori.c was obtained from
     http://www.borgelt.net/ and is Copyright (C) 1996-2003 Christian Borgelt.
     All other code is Copyright (C) Michael Hahsler, Christian Buchta,
     Bettina Gruen and Kurt Hornik.
+RoxygenNote: 6.0.1
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index b1b4002..a5ffda8 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# arules 1.6-0.1 (xx/xx/2018)
+# arules 1.6-1 (04/04/2018)
 
 ## Bug Fixes
 * discretize now handles NAs in equal frequency (reported by yarik1988).
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 ## New Features
 * rules and itemsets gained a method for nitems.
-
+  
 
 # arules 1.6-0 (2/28/2018)