diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 9c779380..2f958535 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: hubValidations
 Title: Testing framework for hubverse hub validations
-Version: 0.6.2.9001
+Version: 0.7.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person(
         given = "Anna", 
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ Authors@R: c(
         role = c("aut"),
         email = "hugo.gruson+R@normalesup.org",
         comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4094-1476")),
+    person("Zhian N.", "Kamvar", , "zkamvar@gmail.com", role = c("ctb"), 
+           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1458-7108")),
     person(
         family = "Consortium of Infectious Disease Modeling Hubs",
         role = c("cph"))    
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 335fee0a..715f6a21 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# hubValidations (development version)
+# hubValidations 0.7.0
 
 * Added function `create_custom_check()` for creating custom validation check function files from templates (#121).
 * Fixed bug in `check_tbl_values_required()` causing required missing values to not be identified correctly when all output types were optional (#123)