diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: DT
 Type: Package
 Title: A Wrapper of the JavaScript Library 'DataTables'
-Version: 0.29
+Version: 0.29.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Yihui", "Xie", email = "xie@yihui.name", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Joe", "Cheng", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# CHANGES IN DT VERSION 0.30
+
+
 # CHANGES IN DT VERSION 0.29
 
 - Support Bootstrap 5 with `datatable(style = "auto")` (thanks, @gadenbuie, #1074).