diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index dd34836..fe040fb 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: recount
 Title: Explore and download data from the recount project
-Version: 1.29.0
-Date: 2023-02-20
+Version: 1.29.1
+Date: 2023-03-26
 Authors@R: c(person("Leonardo", "Collado-Torres", role = c("aut", "cre"),
     email = "lcolladotor@gmail.com", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-2140-308X")),
     person("Abhinav", "Nellore", role = "ctb",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+# recount 1.29.1
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+* Merged a pull request by @hpages which addresses some changes
+to GenomicFeatures. See https://github.com/leekgroup/recount/pull/24
+for details.
+
 # recount 1.19.2
 
 BUG FIXES