diff --git a/apis/r/DESCRIPTION b/apis/r/DESCRIPTION
index 33e2e96110..fae6ef4a72 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: 1.14.99.8
+Version: 1.14.99.9
 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 2ac03464bb..1fb4bbe06d 100644
--- a/apis/r/NEWS.md
+++ b/apis/r/NEWS.md
@@ -23,7 +23,19 @@
 * Plumb old-style `SOMATileDBContext` into new-style `soma_context()` [#3252](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3252)
 * Fixes for dense arrays and yet-to-be-released core 2.27 [#3270](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3270)
 * More fixes for unit-test cases with dense + core 2.27 [#3280](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3280)
-* Add support for writing Seurat v5 ragged arrays
+* Add initial support for ragged array writing for Seurat v5 by @mojaveazure in [#2523](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/2523)
+* Remove 2.27-related feature flag by @johnkerl in [#3368](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3368)
+* Revert #3300 by @johnkerl in [#3358](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3358)
+* Enforce dataframe domain lower bound == 0 by @johnkerl in [#3300](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3300)
+* Data refresh for new shapes by @johnkerl in [#3303](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3303)
+* Move beyond the new-shape feature flag by @johnkerl in [#3301](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3301)
+* Note on dev installs and `spdlog` failures by @johnkerl in [#3324](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3324)
+* Remove tiledb-r specific install by @mojaveazure in [#3319](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3319)
+* Try to unbreak `r-valgrind` CI by @johnkerl in [#3318](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3318)
+* Avoid log truncation with "Last 13 lines of output" by @johnkerl in [#3313](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3313)
+* Run tests in closer to internal-dependency order by @johnkerl in [#3311](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3311)
+* Use standard name `zzz.R` for init code by @johnkerl in [#3332](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3332)
+* Address two more compiler warnings by @johnkerl in [#3320](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3320)
 
 # tiledbsoma 1.14.5