diff --git a/LaF/DESCRIPTION b/LaF/DESCRIPTION
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 Package: LaF
 Type: Package
 Title: Fast access to large ASCII files
-Version: 0.6
-Date: 2014-04-14
+Version: 0.6.1
+Date: 2014-04-21
 Author: Jan van der Laan
 Maintainer: Jan van der Laan <djvanderlaan@unrealizedtime.nl>
 Description: Methods for fast access to large ASCII files.  Currently the 
diff --git a/LaF/NEWS b/LaF/NEWS
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+LaF version 0.6.1
+===============================================================================
+* Minor update. Fixes bug in the C++ code. This bug only affected colfreq and
+  colnmissing one some platforms when there are missing values in the numeric
+  columns. 
 
 LaF version 0.6
 ===============================================================================