diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 457e7a91312569483d354746c44e71728b79706e..e439ab89093dae20b1f26416144caf10e67f322f 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: splatter
 Type: Package
 Title: Simple Simulation of Single-cell RNA Sequencing Data
-Version: 1.5.5
+Version: 1.5.6
 Date: 2018-08-20
 Author: Luke Zappia
 Authors@R:
diff --git a/index.md b/index.md
index febd8cefee8d0770ac157fe17ca8c2035c07f5ec..b6419effa352d13587d7ce0a7bb6e69d950d6d1e 100644
--- a/index.md
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@@ -56,8 +56,7 @@ from Bioconductor:
 
 ```{r}
 library(BiocManager)
-useDevel()
-biocValid()              # checks for out of date packages
+valid()              # checks for out of date packages
 BiocManager::install()               # (optional) updates out of date packages
 BiocManager::install("splatter")
 ```