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-Release 1.0-rc1
+Release 1.0
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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-Release 1.0-rc1
+Release 1.0
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Highlights
 
  * Unified Erasure Coding interface for common storage workloads.
 
- * Pluggable Erasure Code backends - As of v1.0-rc3, liberasurecode supports the following backends:
+ * Pluggable Erasure Code backends - As of v1.0, liberasurecode supports the following backends:
 
       - 'Jerasure' - Erasure Coding library that supports Reed-Solomon, Cauchy backends [1]
       - 'ISA-L' - Intel Storage Acceleration Library - SIMD accelerated Erasure Coding backends [2]