diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index bf1faf61..b2c1541b 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Description: Create beautiful and customizable tables to summarize several
     RTF, JPG, or PNG. Tables can easily be embedded in 'Rmarkdown' or 'knitr'
     dynamic documents. Details can be found in Arel-Bundock (2022)
     <doi:10.18637/jss.v103.i01>.
-Version: 2.1.1.9
+Version: 2.2.0
 Authors@R: c(person("Vincent", "Arel-Bundock", 
                    email = "vincent.arel-bundock@umontreal.ca", 
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # News 
 
-## Development
+## 2.2.0
 
 * Bump minimum version requirement for `tinytable`, `parameters`, and `insight` dependencies.
 * `coef_rename()` gets a `poly=TRUE` argument to rename `poly(x, 2)`-style coefficients. Thanks to @mccarthy-m-g for code contribution #778.