diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Type: Package
 Title: Script Based 'NONMEM' Model Development
 URL: https://tsahota.github.io/NMproject/, https://github.com/tsahota/NMproject
 BugReports: https://github.com/tsahota/NMproject/issues
-Version: 0.6.8
+Version: 0.6.9
 Authors@R: c(
  person("Tarj", "Sahota", email = "t.sahota0@gmail.com", 
     role = c("aut", "cre", "cph")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# NMproject 0.6.9
+
+* Removed timing test
+
 # NMproject 0.6.8
 
 * Removed reshape2 imports and replaced with tidyr v1.0.0.
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
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--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-* Removed test which was causing CRAN test failure 
+* Removed non critical timing test
 
 ## Test environments