diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index c0f79c5c..f010e23a 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: PWFSLSmoke
-Version: 1.0.9
+Version: 1.0.10
 Title: Utilities for Working with Air Quality Monitoring Data
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Jonathan", "Callahan", email="jonathan.s.callahan@gmail.com", role=c("aut","cre")), 
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Description: Utilities for working with air quality monitoring data
     Additional sources of PM2.5 data made accessible by the package include:
     'AIRSIS' (password protected) <https://www.oceaneering.com/data-management/>
     and 'WRCC' <https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/smoke.pl>.
-    Pre-generated data compliations are provided by 'PWFSL'
+    Pre-generated data compilations are provided by 'PWFSL'
     <https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pwfsl/>.
 License: GPL-3
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 169ceb1e..a6e8da42 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ from the US EPA, AirNow, AIRSIS, WRCC and others.
 
 ## Version 1.0 -- Monitoring Data Access
 
+### PWFSLSmoke 1.0.10
+
+ * tweaks for CRAN submission
+ 
 ### PWFSLSmoke 1.0.9
 
  * tweaks for CRAN submission
@@ -16,7 +20,7 @@ from the US EPA, AirNow, AIRSIS, WRCC and others.
 
 ### PWFSLSmoke 1.0.8
 
- * removed dependency on *RCurl* package
+ * removed dependency on **RCurl** package
  * internal `WRCC` object with unitIDs is now a list of lists
  * more consistent error handling and logging during WRCC data processing
  * updated `airnow_loadLatest()` function to access real-time, last 10 day files