diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: pedtools
 Title: Creating and Working with Pedigrees and Marker Data
-Version: 1.2.0
+Version: 1.2.0.9000
 Authors@R: 
     person("Magnus Dehli", "Vigeland", , "m.d.vigeland@medisin.uio.no", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-9134-4962"))
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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 * **pedtools** now depends on R 4.1 (or later) because of the pipe operator `|>`.
 
-* New function `setSNPs()` for creating and attaching a set of SNP markers with given position and allele frequencies.
+* New function `setSNPs()` for creating and attaching a set of SNP markers with given positions and allele frequencies.
 
 * New function `distributeMarkers()` for creating and attaching equal markers evenly across a set of chromosomes (by default, the human autosomes).
 
-* New function `halfSibTriangle()`, implementing an interesting breeding pattern.
+* New function `halfSibTriangle()` implementing an interesting breeding pattern.
 
 ## Bug fixes
 
-* In `transferMarkers()` ignore members with unknown sex when checking compatibility.
+* `transferMarkers()` now ignores members of unknown sex when checking compatibility.
 
-* Fix bug in `addMarker()` when input is a list of pedigrees.
+* Fixed bug in `addMarker()` when input is a list of pedigrees.
 
-* Fix glitches in `setMap()`.
+* Fixed glitches in `setMap()`.
 
 ## Other
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 * Added many tests.
 
-* Rewrite the README example to show piping.
+* Rewrite README example to show piping.
 
 
 # pedtools 1.1.0