diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 0201cd1c..65c63902 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Title: Get Silhouettes of Organisms from PhyloPic
 Description: Work with the PhyloPic Web Service (<http://api-docs.phylopic.org/v2/>) 
     to fetch silhouette images of organisms. Includes functions for adding 
     silhouettes to both base R plots and ggplot2 plots.
-Version: 1.2.2
+Version: 1.2.2.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person(given = "William", family = "Gearty", email = "willgearty@gmail.com",
       role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0076-3262")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 99cca7dc..85ad2e4c 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# rphylopic (development version)
+
 # rphylopic 1.2.2
 
 * vignettes are now precompiled