diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Type: Package
 Package: splatter
 Title: Simple Simulation of Single-cell RNA Sequencing Data
 Version: 1.30.0
-Date: 2024-10-17
+Date: 2024-10-30
 Authors@R:c(
     person("Luke", "Zappia", , "luke@lazappi.id.au", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-7744-8565", GitHub = "lazappi")),
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@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # DEVELOPMENT VERSION
 
+# Version 1.30.0 (2024-10-30)
+
+Bioconductor 3.20 release
+
 ## Version 1.29.1 (2024-10-17)
 
 * Update roxygen2 version