diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 6d149fdc8..990c9ef9e 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: teal.code
 Title: Code Storage and Execution Class for 'teal' Applications
-Version: 0.6.1.9006
+Version: 0.7.0
 Date: 2025-08-12
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Dawid", "Kaledkowski", , "dawid.kaledkowski@roche.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 916152394..0ea1701e9 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,18 +1,19 @@
-# teal.code 0.6.1.9006
+# teal.code 0.7.0
 
 ### Enhancements
 
-* Introduced `get_outputs` function to fetch objects which have been printed or plotted in the `qenv` code. 
+* Introduced `get_outputs` function to fetch objects which have been printed or plotted in the `qenv` code.
 
 ### Bug fixes
 
-* Fix a problem detecting co-occurrences when expression has multiple lines.
+* Fix a problem detecting co-occurrences when expression has multiple lines (#249).
+* Fix a assignment bug `within` curly expression (#252).
 
 ### Miscellaneous
 
 * `eval_code` uses `evaluate::evaluate` and stores returned outputs in the code's attribute.
 * Refactor `eval_code` method signature to allow for more flexibility when extending the `eval_code`/`within` functions.
-* `get_var(qenv, ...)` and `join(qenv, ...)` were hard deprecated.
+* `get_var(qenv, ...)` and `join(qenv, ...)` are hard deprecated.
 
 # teal.code 0.6.1
 
diff --git a/R/qenv-get_var.R b/R/qenv-get_var.R
index a4d6fccb8..4dca8337e 100644
--- a/R/qenv-get_var.R
+++ b/R/qenv-get_var.R
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #' @param i (`character(1)`) variable name.
 #'
 #' @export
-get_var <- function(...) lifecycle::deprecate_stop("0.6.0", "get_var()", "base::get()")
+get_var <- function(...) lifecycle::deprecate_stop("0.7.0", "get_var()", "base::get()")
 
 #' @rdname get_var
 #' @export
diff --git a/R/qenv-join.R b/R/qenv-join.R
index f5c467a75..a91fec578 100644
--- a/R/qenv-join.R
+++ b/R/qenv-join.R
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@
 #' @rdname join
 #'
 #' @export
-join <- function(...) lifecycle::deprecate_stop("0.6.0", "join()", "c()")
+join <- function(...) lifecycle::deprecate_stop("0.7.0", "join()", "c()")