diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Description: Function-oriented Make-like declarative pipelines for
   reproducible pipelines concisely and compactly.
   The methods in this package were influenced by the 'drake' R package
   by Will Landau (2018) <doi:10.21105/joss.00550>.
-Version: 0.10.0
+Version: 0.10.0.9000
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
 URL: https://docs.ropensci.org/tarchetypes/, https://github.com/ropensci/tarchetypes
 BugReports: https://github.com/ropensci/tarchetypes/issues
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# tarchetypes 0.10.0.9000 (development)
+
+
+
 # tarchetypes 0.10.0
 
 * Add a `delimiter` argument to `tar_map()` etc. for customizing separators in target names (#177, @psychelzh).