diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index da35a7bf..65fc70f6 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: nloptr
 Type: Package
 Title: R Interface to NLopt
-Version: 2.0.1.9000
+Version: 2.0.2
 Authors@R: c(person("Jelmer", "Ypma", role = "aut",
                     email = "uctpjyy@ucl.ac.uk"),
              person(c("Steven", "G."), "Johnson", role = "aut",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index e31be406..608acd52 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,15 @@
-# nloptr 2.0.1.9000
+# nloptr 2.0.2
+
+This is a patch version in which:
+
+* I link to the `nlopt` library via `nlopt/lib/libnlopt.a` instead of
+`-Lnlopt/lib -lnlopt` when building `nlopt` from included sources to avoid
+potential mess where `-lnlopt` could look for the `nlopt` library in other
+places and possibly link with an existing too old system build of `nlopt`.
+
+Additionally, we contacted Simon Urbanek for updating the `nlopt` recipe for
+macOS users so that it does now match the latest `v2.7.1`, which should avoid
+`nlopt` to be built on the fly on CRAN machines.
 
 # nloptr 2.0.1