diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 2faa57b..f7bc7f1 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: simTool
 Type: Package
 Title: Conduct Simulation Studies with a Minimal Amount of Source Code
-Version: 1.1.8.9000
+Version: 1.1.9.9000
 Authors@R: person("Marsel", "Scheer", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "scheer@freescience.de")
 Maintainer: Marsel Scheer <scheer@freescience.de>
 Description: Tool for statistical simulations that have two components. 
@@ -34,6 +34,6 @@ Suggests:
     covr
 License: GPL-3
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
-RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
+RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
 URL: https://marselscheer.github.io/simTool/
 BugReports: https://github.com/MarselScheer/simTool/issues
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 586d330..cd85a07 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
+Version 1.1.9.9000
+=========================
+
+* placeholder for next development-cycle
 
-Version 1.1.8.9000
+Version 1.1.9
 =========================
 
 * address deprecated .dots argument of group_by() due to upcoming dplyr version 1.2.0
diff --git a/README.Rmd b/README.Rmd
index 5a4431d..93368ad 100644
--- a/README.Rmd
+++ b/README.Rmd
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ knitr::opts_chunk$set(
 
 
 [![R build status](https://github.com/MarselScheer/simTool/workflows/R-CMD-check/badge.svg)](https://github.com/MarselScheer/simTool/actions)
-[![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/MarselScheer/simTool/branch/development/graph/badge.svg?token=aCoLwwqLrB)](https://codecov.io/gh/MarselScheer/simTool)
+[![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/MarselScheer/simTool/branch/development/graph/badge.svg?token=aCoLwwqLrB)](https://app.codecov.io/gh/MarselScheer/simTool/)
 [![lifecycle](https://img.shields.io/badge/lifecycle-stable-brightgreen.svg)](https://lifecycle.r-lib.org/articles/stages.html)
 [![Project Status: Active – The project has reached a stable, usable
 state and is being actively
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 [![R build
 status](https://github.com/MarselScheer/simTool/workflows/R-CMD-check/badge.svg)](https://github.com/MarselScheer/simTool/actions)
-[![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/MarselScheer/simTool/branch/development/graph/badge.svg?token=aCoLwwqLrB)](https://codecov.io/gh/MarselScheer/simTool)
+[![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/MarselScheer/simTool/branch/development/graph/badge.svg?token=aCoLwwqLrB)](https://app.codecov.io/gh/MarselScheer/simTool/)
 [![lifecycle](https://img.shields.io/badge/lifecycle-stable-brightgreen.svg)](https://lifecycle.r-lib.org/articles/stages.html)
 [![Project Status: Active – The project has reached a stable, usable
 state and is being actively
@@ -64,9 +64,9 @@ using confidence levels 0.8, 0.9, 0.95 are applied. This is repeated
     #> Number of data generating functions: 4
     #> Number of analyzing procedures: 3
     #> Number of replications: 1000
-    #> Estimated replications per hour: 1329200
-    #> Start of the simulation: 2025-04-10 18:09:19.481191
-    #> End of the simulation: 2025-04-10 18:09:22.189585
+    #> Estimated replications per hour: 1342837
+    #> Start of the simulation: 2026-01-24 11:03:38.998282
+    #> End of the simulation: 2026-01-24 11:03:41.679172
 
 ## Installation