diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: r2rtf
 Title: Easily Create Production-Ready Rich Text Format (RTF) Tables and Figures
-Version: 1.3.0
+Version: 1.3.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Yilong", "Zhang", role = "aut"),
     person("Siruo", "Wang", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# r2rtf 1.3.1
+
+## What's Changed
+* Update author and contributor roles in DESCRIPTION by @wangben718 in https://github.com/Merck/r2rtf/pull/293
+
+
 # r2rtf 1.3.0
 
 ## New features