diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: gDRtestData
 Title: gDRtestData - R data package with testing dose response data
-Version: 1.5.1
-Date: 2024-11-05
+Version: 1.7.1
+Date: 2024-04-16
 Description: R package with internal dose-response test data. Package provides functions to generate
   input testing data that can be used as the input for gDR pipeline. It also contains qs files
   with MAE data processed by gDR.
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Imports:
     data.table
 Suggests:
     BiocStyle,
-    gDRstyle (>= 1.1.5),
+    gDRstyle (>= 1.7.1),
     knitr,
     qs,
     reshape2,
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+## gDRtestData 1.7.1 - 2025-04-16
+* synchronize Bioconductor and GitHub versioning
+
 ## gDRtestData 1.5.1 - 2024-11-05
 * synchronize Bioconductor and GitHub versioning
 
@@ -117,4 +120,4 @@
 ## gDRtestData 0.99.0 - 2023-03-31
 * preparing package for Bioc submission
 * fix examples
-  
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