diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: bbotk
 Title: Black-Box Optimization Toolkit
-Version: 1.0.1.9000
+Version: 1.1.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Marc", "Becker", , "marcbecker@posteo.de", role = c("cre", "aut"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8115-0400")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+++ b/NEWS.md
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-# bbotk (development version)
+# bbotk 1.1.0
 
 * docs: Move vignette to mlr3book.
 * feat: Add hypervolume stagnation terminator `trm("stagnation_hypervolume")`.