diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: mlr3fselect
 Title: Feature Selection for 'mlr3'
-Version: 1.2.1
+Version: 1.2.1.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Marc", "Becker", , "marcbecker@posteo.de", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8115-0400")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# mlr3fselect (development version)
+
 # mlr3fselect 1.2.1
 
 * compatibility: mlr3 0.22.0