diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Package: sparseMVN
 Type: Package
 Title: Multivariate Normal Functions for Sparse Covariance and Precision
     Matrices
-Version: 0.2.2
-Date: 2021-10-19
+Version: 0.2.2.9000
+Date: 2021-10-31
 Authors@R: person(given="Michael", family="Braun", email="braunm@smu.edu", role=c("aut","cre","cph"),comment=c(ORCID="0000-0003-4774-2119"))
 Maintainer: Michael Braun <braunm@smu.edu>
 URL: https://braunm.github.io/sparseMVN/, https://github.com/braunm/sparseMVN/
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# sparseMVN 0.2.2.9000
+
+- some vignette cleanup
+
 # sparseMVN 0.2.2
 
 -  Added links to new pkgdown website