diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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 Package: RANN
 Title: Fast Nearest Neighbour Search (Wraps ANN Library) Using
     L2 Metric
-Version: 2.6.1
+Version: 2.6.2
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Gregory","Jefferis", email="jefferis@gmail.com", 
       role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-0587-9355")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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-# RANN (in development)
+# RANN 2.6.2
 
-* switch GitHub repo to jefferislab/RANN
+* define R_NO_REMAP and switch to Rf_* functions at the request of CRAN by 
+  @jefferis in https://github.com/jefferislab/RANN/pull/32
+* Use namespacing to isolate ann library and vendor source by @krlmlr in https://github.com/jefferislab/RANN/pull/30
+  (this could be used to provide the L1 metric in the same package in future)
+* switch to github actions by @jefferis in https://github.com/jefferislab/RANN/pull/33
+* dev: switch GitHub repo to jefferislab/RANN
+
+**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/jefferislab/RANN/compare/v2.6.1...v2.6.2
 
 # RANN 2.6.1