diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: V8
 Type: Package
 Title: Embedded JavaScript and WebAssembly Engine for R
-Version: 3.0
+Version: 3.0.1
 Authors@R: person("Jeroen", "Ooms", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "jeroen@berkeley.edu",
     comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4035-0289"))
 Description: An R interface to V8: Google's open source JavaScript and WebAssembly 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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+3.0.1
+ - Fix build for old versions of R using old compilers that do not default to C++11
+
 3.0
  - Internal rewrite of object serialization to prepare for wasm
  - Automatically convert raw vectors to/from Uint8Array in eval/get/assign