diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index dac843f..9875e40 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Package: sivs
 Type: Package
 Title: Stable Iterative Variable Selection
 Version: 0.2.8
-Date: 2023-02-06
+Date: 2023-03-23
 Authors@R: c(person(given = "Mehrad", family = "Mahmoudian",
                     role = c("aut", "cre"),
                     email = "mehrad.mahmoudian@utu.fi",
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Authors@R: c(person(given = "Mehrad", family = "Mahmoudian",
                     email = "",
                     comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5648-4532")))
 Imports: doParallel, parallel, foreach, glmnet, pROC, varhandle, utils
-Suggests: knitr
+Suggests: markdown, knitr
 Description: An iterative feature selection method (manuscript submitted) that
     internally utilizes various Machine Learning methods that have embedded
     feature reduction in order to shrink down the feature space into a small
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index e7342b7..526ca0f 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+## 0.2.9
+
+[fix] Adding `markdown` package to the list of suggestions to bypass the vignette building error.
+
+## 0.2.8
+
+- `is.sivs()`
+    - [fix] This function was not properly exported and in this version is correctly exported.
+
 ## 0.2.7
 
 - `suggest()`