diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: scDblFinder
 Type: Package
 Title: scDblFinder
-Version: 1.19.5
+Version: 1.19.6
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Pierre-Luc", "Germain", email="pierre-luc.germain@hest.ethz.ch", role=c("cre","aut"), comment=c(ORCID="0000-0003-3418-4218")),
     person("Aaron", "Lun", email="infinite.monkeys.with.keyboards@gmail.com", role="ctb"))
diff --git a/inst/NEWS b/inst/NEWS
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--- a/inst/NEWS
+++ b/inst/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Changes in version 1.19.6 (2024-09-19)
++ added a dbr.per1k parameter to set doublet rates per thousands of cells, updated the default from 1 to 0.8\%
++ fixed some issues stemming from the cxds score in some corner cases (absence of inverse correlation between genes)
++ updated documentation
+
 Changes in version 1.13.14 (2023-06-19)
 + reduced the default minimum number of artificial doublets to improve call robustness in very small datasets.