diff --git a/apis/r/DESCRIPTION b/apis/r/DESCRIPTION
index d1e85af73..2dca398d6 100644
--- a/apis/r/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/apis/r/DESCRIPTION
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Description: Interface for working with 'TileDB'-based Stack of Matrices,
     like those commonly used for single cell data analysis. It is documented at
     <https://github.com/single-cell-data>; a formal specification available is at
     <https://github.com/single-cell-data/SOMA/blob/main/abstract_specification.md>.
-Version: 1.11.1.1
+Version: 1.11.2
 Authors@R: c(
     person(given = "Aaron", family = "Wolen",
            role = c("cre", "aut"), email = "aaron@tiledb.com",
diff --git a/apis/r/NEWS.md b/apis/r/NEWS.md
index f6c394602..2ac3eecb9 100644
--- a/apis/r/NEWS.md
+++ b/apis/r/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# tiledbsoma 1.11.2
+
+## Changes
+
+* New `reopen` method available from R
+
 # tiledbsoma 1.11.1
 
 ## Changes