diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
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 Package: implyr
 Type: Package
 Title: R Interface for Apache Impala
-Version: 0.2.3.9000
+Version: 0.2.4
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Ian", "Cook", email = "ian@cloudera.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person(family = "Cloudera", role = c("cph"))
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# implyr 0.2.4
+# implyr 0.2.3.9000
 
 * Made minor bugfixes and improvements
 * Added rJava to Suggests (#26)
diff --git a/README.Rmd b/README.Rmd
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@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@ knitr::opts_chunk$set(
 
 # implyr
 
-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/ianmcook/implyr.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/ianmcook/implyr)
-[![CRAN_Status_Badge](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/implyr)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=implyr)
-
 **implyr** is a SQL backend to [dplyr](https://cran.r-project.org/package=dplyr) for [Apache Impala](https://impala.apache.org), the massively parallel processing query engine for Apache Hadoop. Impala enables low-latency SQL queries on large datasets stored in HDFS, Apache HBase, Apache Kudu, Amazon S3, Microsoft ADLS, and Dell EMC Isilon.
 
 implyr is designed to work with any [DBI](https://cran.r-project.org/package=DBI)-compatible interface to Impala. implyr does not provide the underlying connectivity to Impala, nor does it require that you use one particular R package for connectivity to Impala. Currently, two packages that can provide this connectivity are [odbc](https://cran.r-project.org/package=odbc) and [RJDBC](https://cran.r-project.org/package=RJDBC). Future packages may provide other options for connectivity.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@
 
 # implyr
 
-[![Build
-Status](https://travis-ci.org/ianmcook/implyr.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/ianmcook/implyr)
-[![CRAN\_Status\_Badge](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/implyr)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=implyr)
-
 **implyr** is a SQL backend to
 [dplyr](https://cran.r-project.org/package=dplyr) for [Apache
 Impala](https://impala.apache.org), the massively parallel processing