diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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 Package: lightr
 Title: Read Spectrometric Data and Metadata
-Version: 1.7.1.9000
+Version: 1.8.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hugo", "Gruson", role = c("cre", "aut", "cph"),
     email = "hugo.gruson+R@normalesup.org",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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-# lightr (development version)
+# lightr 1.8.0
 
 ## Minor changes