diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ddef5438a3344ae27774e50740b45bbf3420692d..3c6302d384a67ac281a6ef89eea79ec4827783ef 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Package: splatter
 Type: Package
 Title: Simple Simulation of Single-cell RNA Sequencing Data
-Version: 0.99.16
-Date: 2017-04-23
+Version: 1.0.0
+Date: 2017-04-28
 Author: Luke Zappia
 Authors@R:
     c(person("Luke", "Zappia", role = c("aut", "cre"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index dd555cb84324f931ed635f485d5edae3668a6eef..59de9e65b404bd54acf15ced290db511b62775c2 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# 1.0.0
+
+* Bioconductor 3.5 release
+
 # 0.99.15
 
 * Add summariseDiff function
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9f52c1d4a06edd89112669116ebd03b94cb9d30f..7e541d88f3a7fd750587f788f2e76dc6c46cefd4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,15 +14,15 @@ data. Splatter provides a common interface to multiple simulations that have:
 * Functions for simulating counts using those parameters
 
 Splatter is built on top of [`scater`][scater] and stores simulations in
-`SCESet` objects.
+`SCESet` objects. Splatter also has functions for comparing simulations and real
+datasets.
 
 ## Installation.
 
 ### Development version
 
-Splatter has been accepted into the development version of [Bioconductor][bioc]
-and hence requires the development version of R (>=3.4) and the development
-version of Bioconductor (3.5).
+Splatter has been accepted into the latest version of [Bioconductor][bioc]
+and hence requires the latest version of R (>=3.4).
 
 If you have these installed Splatter can be installed from Bioconductor using
 `biocLite`:
@@ -43,13 +43,6 @@ aren't required for core functionality). Building the vignette may sometimes
 fail when run from the command line, if this happens try running the install
 command in RStudio.
 
-### Release version
-
-The last version of Splatter that is compatible with the current version of
-R (3.3) is v0.99.0 which can be downloaded [here][rel33]. There are no
-significant changes to functionality and this version should be fine for most
-users until the next R/Bioconductor release (in approximately April 2017).
-
 ## Getting started
 
 Once installed the best place to get started is the vignette. For most users
@@ -69,4 +62,3 @@ This is a detailed document that introduces the main features of Splatter.
 [contrib]: https://github.com/Bioconductor/Contributions/issues/209
 [bioc]: https://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/splatter.html
 [vignette]: https://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/vignettes/splatter/inst/doc/splatter.html
-[rel33]: https://github.com/Oshlack/splatter/releases/tag/v0.99.0