diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: partition
 Title: Agglomerative Partitioning Framework for Dimension Reduction
-Version: 0.2.0.9000
+Version: 0.2.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Joshua", "Millstein", , "joshua.millstein@usc.edu", role = "aut"),
     person("Malcolm", "Barrett", , "malcolmbarrett@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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-# partition (development version)
+# partition 0.2.1
 * Fixed bug in `super_partition()` related to indices not matching (#37)
 
 # partition 0.2.0