diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 632858d..35f91af 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: htmlwidgets
 Type: Package
 Title: HTML Widgets for R
-Version: 1.6.2
+Version: 1.6.2.9000
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Ramnath", "Vaidyanathan", role = c("aut", "cph")),
     person("Yihui", "Xie", role = c("aut")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 3e27b5a..a4ebc95 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+htmlwidgets 1.6.2.9000
+------------------------------------------------------
+
+
 htmlwidgets 1.6.2
 ------------------------------------------------------