diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 830e25c6..5b694762 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Package: shinystan
 Title: Interactive Visual and Numerical Diagnostics and Posterior Analysis for
     Bayesian Models
 Version: 2.2.0
-Date: 2016-04-25
+Date: 2016-04-29
 Authors@R: c(person("Jonah", "Gabry", role = c("aut", "cre"),
     email = "jsg2201@columbia.edu"),
       person(family = "Stan Development Team", role = "ctb"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 4e57e4eb..a5e59c6b 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 # `shinystan news`
 
-### Version 2.1.1
+### Version 2.2.0
 * Introduce `drop_parameters` function for removing parameters from a shinystan 
 object (useful for very large objects when you only want to look at a subset of
 parameters).
 * Add **rstanarm** to Suggests (in the DESCRIPTION file) so `rstanarm::pp_check`
 can be called.
-* Allow selecting yrep from global environment for PPcheck
+* Allow selecting `yrep` from global environment for PPcheck
+* Change `as.shinystan` to S4 generic with methods
 
 ### Version 2.1.0
 * Compatibility with recent ggplot2 update