diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index de7d76d7..71c93e60 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Package: genieclust
 Type: Package
 Title: The Genie++ Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm with Noise Points Detection
 Version: 0.9.7
-Date: 2021-01-05
+Date: 2021-01-07
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Marek", "Gagolewski",
         role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"),
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Imports:
     utils
 Suggests:
     datasets
-LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo, RcppMLPACK
+LinkingTo: Rcpp, BH, RcppArmadillo, RcppMLPACK
 Encoding: UTF-8
 SystemRequirements: OpenMP, C++11
 RoxygenNote: 7.1.1
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b5f7dacb..9dd154cf 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 # `genieclust` Package NEWS
 
 
-## genieclust 0.9.7 (2021-XX-XX)
+## genieclust 0.9.7 (2021-01-07)
 
--   ...
+-   [Python] Python >= 3.7 is now required (implied by `numpy`).
+
+-   [R] Use `RcppMLPACK` directly instead of via a wrapper, `emstreeR`.
 
 
 ## genieclust 0.9.6 (2021-01-05)
 
 -   [Python] Python >= 3.7 is now required (implied by `numpy`).
 
--   [R] Use `RcppMLPACK` directly instead of via a wrapper, `emstreeR`.
-
 
 ## genieclust 0.9.5 (2021-01-04)