diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 9f15f8b..a413b06 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: cdcfluview
 Type: Package
 Title: cdcfluview is package that retrieves the data behind the CDC's FluView portal
-Version: 0.2
+Version: 0.2.1
 Date: 2015-01-11
 Author: Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
 Maintainer: Bob Rudis <bob@rudis.net>
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ Suggests:
     testthat
 Depends:
     R (>= 3.0.0),
-    httr (>= 0.3.0)
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+    httr (>= 0.5.0)
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diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
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--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Generated by roxygen2 (4.1.0): do not edit by hand
+# Generated by roxygen2 (4.1.0.9000): do not edit by hand
 
 export(get_flu_data)
 export(get_state_data)
diff --git a/README.Rmd b/README.Rmd
index 33db9b9..a1a1926 100644
--- a/README.Rmd
+++ b/README.Rmd
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ The following data sets are included:
 ### News
 
 - Version 0.1 released
-- Version 0.2 releases : added state-level data retrieval
+- Version 0.2 released : added state-level data retrieval
+- Version 0.2.1 released : bumped up `httr` version # requirement in `DESCRIPTION` 
 
 ### Installation
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9830306..4a499e8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ The following data sets are included:
 ### News
 
 -   Version 0.1 released
--   Version 0.2 releases : added state-level data retrieval
+-   Version 0.2 released : added state-level data retrieval
+-   Version 0.2.1 released : bumped up `httr` version \# requirement in `DESCRIPTION`
 
 ### Installation
 
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(statebins))
 packageVersion("cdcfluview")
 ```
 
-    ## [1] '0.2'
+    ## [1] '0.2.1'
 
 ``` r
 flu <- get_flu_data("hhs", sub_region=1:10, "ilinet", years=2014)
@@ -107,7 +108,7 @@ library(testthat)
 date()
 ```
 
-    ## [1] "Sun Jan 11 19:42:51 2015"
+    ## [1] "Mon Jan 12 14:22:33 2015"
 
 ``` r
 test_dir("tests/")
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diff --git a/man/cdcfluview.Rd b/man/cdcfluview.Rd
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--- a/man/cdcfluview.Rd
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-% Generated by roxygen2 (4.1.0): do not edit by hand
+% Generated by roxygen2 (4.1.0.9000): do not edit by hand
 % Please edit documentation in R/cdcfluview-package.R
 \docType{package}
 \name{cdcfluview}
diff --git a/man/get_flu_data.Rd b/man/get_flu_data.Rd
index e36e7bb..c94a617 100644
--- a/man/get_flu_data.Rd
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-% Generated by roxygen2 (4.1.0): do not edit by hand
+% Generated by roxygen2 (4.1.0.9000): do not edit by hand
 % Please edit documentation in R/cdcfluview.R
 \name{get_flu_data}
 \alias{get_flu_data}
diff --git a/man/get_state_data.Rd b/man/get_state_data.Rd
index f3859c0..e356cca 100644
--- a/man/get_state_data.Rd
+++ b/man/get_state_data.Rd
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-% Generated by roxygen2 (4.1.0): do not edit by hand
+% Generated by roxygen2 (4.1.0.9000): do not edit by hand
 % Please edit documentation in R/cdcfluview.R
 \name{get_state_data}
 \alias{get_state_data}