diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ And a big thanks to all GitHub sponsors who helped with some of my costs before
 
 ## What's New
 
+### July 28, 2022
+* Add freshly minted DeiT-III Medium (width=512, depth=12, num_heads=8) model weights. Thanks [Hugo Touvron](https://github.com/TouvronHugo)!
+
 ### July 27, 2022
 * All runtime benchmark and validation result csv files are finally up-to-date!
 * A few more weights & model defs added:
diff --git a/timm/version.py b/timm/version.py
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@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '0.6.7'
+__version__ = '0.6.8'