diff --git a/apis/r/DESCRIPTION b/apis/r/DESCRIPTION
index 8de8cccb6c..e94dc1e157 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: 1.15.99.18
+Version: 1.15.99.19
 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 59517e1dd7..ea6b404947 100644
--- a/apis/r/NEWS.md
+++ b/apis/r/NEWS.md
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 * Add support for writing Seurat v5 ragged arrays
 * Update docstrings for `domain` argument to `create` [#3396](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3396)
 * Vignette for new-shape feature [#3302](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/3302)
+* Fix blockwise iterator + re-indexer to return re-indexed shape instead of full domain
 
 # tiledbsoma 1.14.5