diff --git a/r-package/DESCRIPTION b/r-package/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/r-package/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/r-package/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: geobr
 Title: Download Official Spatial Data Sets of Brazil
-Version: 1.8.2
+Version: 1.8.9999
 Authors@R: c(person(given="Rafael H. M.", family="Pereira", email="rafa.pereira.br@gmail.com", role=c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-2125-7465")),
             person(given="Caio Nogueira", family="Goncalves", role=c("aut")),
             person(given="Paulo Henrique Fernandes de", family="Araujo", role=c("ctb")),
diff --git a/r-package/NEWS.md b/r-package/NEWS.md
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@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+# geobr v1.9.0 
+
+**Major changes**
+
+- Function `read_health_facilities()` now has a new parameter `date`, which will allow users to access data for different dates of reference. The plan is to have at least one update of this data set per year. 
+
+
+
 # geobr v1.8.2 
 
 **CRAN request**