diff --git a/apis/r/DESCRIPTION b/apis/r/DESCRIPTION
index 8c5c585066..36e6b12df9 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: 1.9.99.2
+Version: 1.9.99.3
 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 7981c409cb..82d3957d04 100644
--- a/apis/r/NEWS.md
+++ b/apis/r/NEWS.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 * Add support for outgestion of `SeuratCommand` logs
 * Add support for reading `*m` and `*p` layers from `SOMAExperimentAxisQuery`
 * Add support for blockwise iteration
+* Expose `TileDBArray$reopen()`
 
 # 1.7.0