diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: readr
 Title: Read Rectangular Text Data
-Version: 2.1.2.9000
+Version: 2.1.3
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@rstudio.com", role = "aut"),
     person("Jim", "Hester", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# readr (development version)
+# readr 2.1.3
 
 * Help files below `man/` have been re-generated, so that they give rise to valid HTML5. (This is the impetus for this release, to keep the package safely on CRAN.)