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 Package: mobileRNA
 Type: Package
 Title: mobileRNA: Investigate the RNA mobilome & population-scale changes
-Version: 1.0.13
+Version: 1.0.14
 Authors@R: c(person("Katie", "Jeynes-Cupper", 
     email = "kejc@illinois.edu", role = c("aut", "cre"), 
      comment = c(ORCID = "0009-0000-1350-1371")),
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ Katie Jeynes-Cupper, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, kejc@illinois.edu
 Marco Catoni, University of Birmingham
 
 
+IMPORTANT UPDATES
+======================================================================
+Recently we were made aware of a bug in the RNAmergeGenomes function 
+which has now been fixed. Similarly, we introduced a new plotting function to 
+plot the distribution of sRNAs across genomic features. 
+
 Table of Contents
 ======================================================================
 -   [Overview](#Overview)