diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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 Package: dbmss
 Type: Package
 Title: Distance-Based Measures of Spatial Structures
-Version: 2.8-2
+Version: 2.8-2.9000
 Authors@R: c(
   person("Eric", "Marcon", email="eric.marcon@agroparistech.fr", role=c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-5249-321X")),
   person("Gabriel", "Lang", email="gabriel.lang@agroparistech.fr", role="aut", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4325-6044")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+# dbmss 2.8-2.9000
+
+## Improvements
+
+- NAMESPACE cleaned up.
+
+
 # dbmss 2.8-2
 
 ## Improvements