diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Package: rentrez
-Version: 1.0.3
+Version: 1.0.4
 Date: 2016-08-15
 Title: Entrez in R
 Authors@R: c(
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+Version 1.0.3
+------------------  
+Update to only use https
+    * NCBI is goinh all https, rentrez will only use https from now on.
+    * Added links to repo/bug reporting to DESCRIPTION 
+    * Documented changes to sequence database XML records
+    * Allow automatic parsing of XML flavours
+
+
 Version 1.0.2
 -------------------
 Bug fix release