diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index e54c234c..9fb54764 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ^.github$
 ^revdep$
 ^docs$
+^pkgdown$
 ^README\.Rmd$
 ^README\.md$
 ^README-.*\.png$
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 6eb5e136..414f43d8 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: DiagrammeR
 Title: Graph/Network Visualization
-Version: 1.0.9.9000
+Version: 1.0.10
 Authors@R:
     person("Richard", "Iannone", , "riannone@me.com", c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-3925-190X"))
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 1c9fa52a..0f716ce0 100755
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-# DiagrammeR (development version)
+# DiagrammeR 1.0.10
+
+* Remove dependency on the **influenceR** package, which also means removing the `get_constraint()` and `get_bridging()` graph inspection functions.
 
 # DiagrammeR 1.0.9