diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 3fc6332..2fd9f88 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ Authors@R:
              comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-2302-0445")),
       person(given = "Global TIES for Children",
              role = c("cph")))
-Description: This package provides some caching abilities for the OSF
-    along with easy data encryption using sodium.
+Description: This package provides supplementary tools for osfr 
+    that allow file caching and object encryption for sensitive data.
 License: GPL-3 + file LICENSE
 Encoding: UTF-8
 LazyData: true
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 2c1d253..8b028b4 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 # osfutils 0.1.0
 
-# osfutils 0.0.0.9000
-
+* First major release
 * Added a `NEWS.md` file to track changes to the package.