diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 9b2ab02..40d4dc2 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Title: Interface to the 'Request Tracker' API
 Description: Provides a programmatic interface to the 'Request Tracker' (RT)
   HTTP API <https://rt-wiki.bestpractical.com/wiki/REST>. 'RT' is a popular
   ticket tracking system.
-Version: 1.0.1
+Version: 1.1
 URL: https://github.com/nceas/rt
 BugReports: https://github.com/nceas/rt/issues
 Authors@R: c(
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index ce5f438..2a9c76e 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This 1.0.1 release is a patch release aimed at fixing a bug that effects some users and completely limits their use of all parts of the package.
+This 1.1 release is a minor release adding a new user-facing function and tweaking the behavior of an internal function to work in more scenarios.
 
 ## Test environments
 
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ This 1.0.1 release is a patch release aimed at fixing a bug that effects some us
 
 ## R CMD CHECK results
 
-There were no NOTEs, WARNING, or ERRORs.
\ No newline at end of file
+There were no NOTEs, WARNING, or ERRORs.