diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 69ffded..ed5e74e 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Package: OUTRIDER
 Title: OUTRIDER - OUTlier in RNA-Seq fInDER
 Type: Package
-Version: 1.17.2
-Date: 2020-10-20
+Version: 1.20.1
+Date: 2024-04-24
 URL: https://github.com/gagneurlab/OUTRIDER
 BugRepots: https://github.com/gagneurlab/OUTRIDER/issues
 Authors@R: c(
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4ff42b8..3967b32 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+CHANGES IN VERSION 1.20.1
+-----------------------------
+    o Add Manhattenplot functionallity
+    o Bugfix in restricting for FDR correction and others (#54 and aa6e56a)
+    o Ensure correct injections of outliers (#37)
+
 CHANGES IN VERSION 1.16.1
 -----------------------------
     o Add option to restrict FDR correction to sets of genes of interest
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a282123..e515ee1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ install.packages('devtools')
 devtools::install_github('gagneurlab/OUTRIDER', dependencies=TRUE)
 
 # installing a specific version/tag of OUTRIDER
-devtools::install_github('gagneurlab/OUTRIDER@1.16.1', dependencies=TRUE)
+devtools::install_github('gagneurlab/OUTRIDER@1.20.1', dependencies=TRUE)
 ```
 
 To check which versions/tags are available you can check the GitHub repo