diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index a57e10c99..46f06bc94 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Package: mzR
 Type: Package
 Title: parser for netCDF, mzXML and mzML and mzIdentML files
        (mass spectrometry data)
-Version: 2.37.3
+Version: 2.38.0
 Author: Bernd Fischer, Steffen Neumann, Laurent Gatto, Qiang Kou, Johannes Rainer
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Steffen", "Neumann", email="sneumann@ipb-halle.de", role=c("aut","cre")),