diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 3a04c8b..c18c8a4 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@
 ^docs$
 ^varistran.sublime-
 
+^_pkgdown\.yml$
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 2b7dd05..5b41140 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Description: Transform RNA-Seq count data so that variance due to biological
 Authors@R: person("Paul", "Harrison", email = "paul.harrison@monash.edu", role = c("aut", "cre"))
 Maintainer: Paul Harrison <paul.harrison@monash.edu>
 URL: https://github.com/MonashBioinformaticsPlatform/varistran
-Version: 1.0.2
+Version: 1.0.3
 License: LGPL-2.1 | file LICENSE
 Depends:
     grid
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a3d2f2e..4ae7557 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 
+1.0.3
+=====
+
+No code changes. Updated READEME with references and supporting/contributing section.
+
 1.0.2
 =====