diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: proofr
 Title: Client for the PROOF API
-Version: 0.3.0.96
+Version: 0.4.0.0
 Authors@R: 
     person("Scott", "Chamberlain", , "sachamber@fredhutch.org", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1444-9135"))
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# proofr v0.4.0
+
+* Bumping timeout from 5 seconds to 20 seconds (@sckott in [direct commit](https://github.com/getwilds/proofr/commit/cbe9062fd73e61992b46035e7ac2241cd8de2541))
+
 # proofr v0.3.0
 
 * Swapping `httr` for `httr2` (@sckott in [#25](https://github.com/getwilds/proofr/pull/25))