diff --git a/apis/r/DESCRIPTION b/apis/r/DESCRIPTION
index 8a2eac0540..48ba0ad98f 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: 1.14.99.2
+Version: 1.14.99.3
 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 b2ccab779b..4541405113 100644
--- a/apis/r/NEWS.md
+++ b/apis/r/NEWS.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 ## Changes
 
+* Use `libtiledbsoma` for R schema evolution [#3100](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3100)
 * Implement missing `domain` argument to `SOMADataFrame` `create` [#3032](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3032)
 * Remove unused `fragment_count` accessor [#3054](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3054)