diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: roxygen2
 Title: In-Line Documentation for R
-Version: 7.1.2.9000
+Version: 7.2.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@rstudio.com", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4757-117X")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# roxygen2 (development version)
+# roxygen2 7.2.0
 
 ## New features