diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 1e71b7e..673e29f 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Description: Retrieve, map and summarize data from the 'VertNet.org'
     parameters, including 'taxonomic' names, places, and dates. In addition, 
     there is an interface for conducting spatially delimited searches, and 
     another for requesting large 'datasets' via email.
-Version: 0.8.3.9000
+Version: 0.8.4
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Scott", "Chamberlain", email = "myrmecocystus@gmail.com",
       role = c("aut", "cph"), comment = "0000-0003-1444-9135"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 39e99dd..456151f 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# rvertnet (development version)
+# rvertnet 0.8.4
 
 * remove hardcoded figure that caused failed vignette build on 2 CRAN check runners with old pandoc versions
 
diff --git a/codemeta.json b/codemeta.json
index 5db0d08..2849118 100644
--- a/codemeta.json
+++ b/codemeta.json
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   "codeRepository": "https://github.com/ropensci/rvertnet",
   "issueTracker": "https://github.com/ropensci/rvertnet/issues",
   "license": "https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT",
-  "version": "0.8.3",
+  "version": "0.8.4",
   "programmingLanguage": {
     "@type": "ComputerLanguage",
     "name": "R",
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
   "applicationCategory": "DataAccess",
   "isPartOf": "\"https://ropensci.org\"",
   "keywords": ["species", "occurrences", "biodiversity", "maps", "vertnet", "mammals", "mammalia", "specimens", "api-wrapper", "specimen", "rstats", "r", "spocc", "r-package"],
-  "fileSize": "6433.492KB",
+  "fileSize": "6433.088KB",
   "releaseNotes": "https://github.com/ropensci/rvertnet/blob/master/NEWS.md",
   "readme": "https://github.com/ropensci/rvertnet/blob/master/README.md",
   "contIntegration": ["https://github.com/ropensci/rvertnet/actions/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml", "https://app.codecov.io/gh/ropensci/rvertnet?branch=master"],