diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: pdftools
 Type: Package
 Title: Text Extraction, Rendering and Converting of PDF Documents
-Version: 2.0.9000
+Version: 2.1
 Authors@R: person("Jeroen", "Ooms", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "jeroen@berkeley.edu",
       comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4035-0289"))
 Description: Utilities based on 'libpoppler' for extracting text, fonts, attachments and 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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 2.1
   - Windows / MacOS: update poppler to 0.73.0
-  - Remove last code that used the 'unstable' xpdf api
+  - Remove code that used the 'unstable' xpdf api
+  - Use unique_ptr objects to fix memory leaks
 
 2.0
   - Windows, MacOS: update poppler to 0.72.1 (backported UTF-8 fix)