diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
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 Type: Package
 Package: datawizard
 Title: Easy Data Wrangling and Statistical Transformations
-Version: 1.2.0.9
+Version: 1.3.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Indrajeet", "Patil", , "patilindrajeet.science@gmail.com", role = "aut",
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1995-6531")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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-# datawizard (development)
+# datawizard 1.3.0
 
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