diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ada2caa4c..bc3f68791 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: polars
 Title: Lightning-Fast 'DataFrame' Library
-Version: 0.18.0.9000
+Version: 0.19.0
 Depends: R (>= 4.2)
 Imports: utils, codetools, methods
 Authors@R:
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index e2344febf..9ee3c98ee 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # NEWS
 
-## Polars R Package (development version)
+## Polars R Package 0.19.0
 
 ### Breaking changes
 
diff --git a/tools/lib-sums.tsv b/tools/lib-sums.tsv
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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+url	sha256sum
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+https://github.com/pola-rs/r-polars/releases/download/lib-v0.42.0/libr_polars-0.42.0-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	09c3d1f5a54f2d97c5bdaa36605eb878019dfd8fffd111e0a96de76a5ca57e65
+https://github.com/pola-rs/r-polars/releases/download/lib-v0.42.0/libr_polars-0.42.0-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.tar.gz	dea0e23194e9fc5eb7e226f0d0b25f74610319d0f96ba1f832315afaae50f5a1
+https://github.com/pola-rs/r-polars/releases/download/lib-v0.42.0/libr_polars-0.42.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	492555ad0af9f0b30dbef82025d9a3400ff31990cf33c122e6bd88a38097ceab