diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: schnapps
 Title: Single Cell Haplotype copy Number Analysis through Phased Probabilistic States
-Version: 0.5.4
+Version: 0.5.5
 Author@R: c(person("Marc", "Williams", email = "marcjwilliams1@gmail.com",
                   role = c("aut", "cre")),
             person("Tyler", "Funnell",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# schnapps 0.5.5
+
+* update plotting and clustering
+
 # schnapps 0.5.4
 
 * update docker