diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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 Package: mlr3
 Title: Machine Learning in R - Next Generation
-Version: 0.7.0-9000
+Version: 0.8.0
 Authors@R:
     c(person(given = "Michel",
              family = "Lang",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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   featureless tasks.
 * Fixed [ResampleResult] ignoring argument `predict_sets` for returned
   [Prediction] objects.
+* Compability with new version of `lgr`.
 
 # mlr3 0.7.0