diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 7df7c1773c..a410b3a6b8 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: rmarkdown
 Title: Dynamic Documents for R
-Version: 2.23.4
+Version: 2.24
 Authors@R: c(
     person("JJ", "Allaire", , "jj@posit.co", role = "aut"),
     person("Yihui", "Xie", , "xie@yihui.name", role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0645-5666")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index b08b75d4b1..d5db681dd3 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ rmarkdown 2.24
 
 - Fix an issue with shiny prerendered document where dependencies context were written twice leasing to parsing error (thanks, @gadenbuie, rstudio/learn#597, #2500).
 
+
 rmarkdown 2.23
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