diff --git a/SPLICE/DESCRIPTION b/SPLICE/DESCRIPTION
index be0e89d..c6150be 100644
--- a/SPLICE/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/SPLICE/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: SPLICE
 Title: Synthetic Paid Loss and Incurred Cost Experience (SPLICE) Simulator
-Version: 1.0.0
+Version: 1.1.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Benjamin", "Avanzi", role = "aut", email = "b.avanzi@unimelb.edu.au"),
     person("Greg", "Taylor", role = "aut", email = "greg_taylor60@hotmail.com"),
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ Maintainer: Melantha Wang <wang.melantha@gmail.com>
 Imports:
     stats,
     methods,
-    zoo
+    zoo,
+    lifecycle
 Description: An extension to the individual claim simulator called 'SynthETIC'
     (on CRAN), to simulate the evolution of case estimates of incurred losses
     through the lifetime of an insurance claim. The transactional simulation
diff --git a/SPLICE/NAMESPACE b/SPLICE/NAMESPACE
index 51f9d16..60bd31d 100644
--- a/SPLICE/NAMESPACE
+++ b/SPLICE/NAMESPACE
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@ export(ptri)
 export(qtri)
 export(rtri)
 import(SynthETIC)
+importFrom(lifecycle,deprecated)
diff --git a/SPLICE/NEWS.md b/SPLICE/NEWS.md
index 3b255f8..1fc59c7 100644
--- a/SPLICE/NEWS.md
+++ b/SPLICE/NEWS.md
@@ -4,10 +4,9 @@
 
 ## New features {#new-features-1.1.0}
 
-* Adds `generate_data` function for the convenience of users who wish to
-generate (claims/payments/incurred) datasets of varying levels of complexity
-* Adds a package vignette `SPLICE-data-generation.Rmd` to demonstrate this 
-functionality
+* Adds `generate_data` function (experimental) for the convenience of users who 
+wish to generate (claims/payments/incurred) datasets of varying levels of 
+complexity
 
 ## Minor improvements and fixes {#bugfixes-1.1.0}
 
diff --git a/SPLICE/R/SPLICE-package.R b/SPLICE/R/SPLICE-package.R
index b1871ae..7e60a94 100644
--- a/SPLICE/R/SPLICE-package.R
+++ b/SPLICE/R/SPLICE-package.R
@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@
 # The following block is used by usethis to automatically manage
 # roxygen namespace tags. Modify with care!
 ## usethis namespace: start
+#' @importFrom lifecycle deprecated
 ## usethis namespace: end
 NULL
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