diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 1ba9ef460..40570068f 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Package: mzR
 Type: Package
 Title: parser for netCDF, mzXML, mzData and mzML and mzIdentML files
        (mass spectrometry data)
-Version: 2.25.0
+Version: 2.25.1
 Author: Bernd Fischer, Steffen Neumann, Laurent Gatto, Qiang Kou, Johannes Rainer
 Maintainer: Steffen Neumann <sneumann@ipb-halle.de>,
 	    Laurent Gatto <laurent.gatto@uclouvain.be>,
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ceeec0529..aa2e7a977 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+CHANGES IN VERSION 2.25.1
+-------------------------
+ o Bump version to trigger new build using latest Rcpp
+
+CHANGES IN VERSION 2.25.0
+-------------------------
+ o New Bioc devel version
+ 
 CHANGES IN VERSION 2.21.2
 -------------------------
  o Update email address