diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Description: Classes and methods for spatial objects that have a registered time
     column, in particular for irregular spatiotemporal data. The time column can 
     be of any type, but needs to be ordinal. Regularly laid out spatiotemporal 
     data (vector or raster data cubes) are handled by package 'stars'. 
-Version: 0.3.0
+Version: 0.3.0.9000
 Depends: 
     sf (>= 1.0.9)
 Imports: methods
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# sftime (development version)
+
 # sftime 0.3.0
 
 * Add a dedicated `tidyr::drop_na()` method for `sftime` objects. (See the same recent addition for `sf` objects [#1975](https://github.com/r-spatial/sf/pull/1975/)).