diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: forcats
 Title: Tools for Working with Categorical Variables (Factors)
-Version: 0.5.2.9000
+Version: 1.0.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@rstudio.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("RStudio", role = c("cph", "fnd"))
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+++ b/NEWS.md
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-# forcats (development version)
+# forcats 1.0.0
 
 ## New features