diff --git a/paws.common/DESCRIPTION b/paws.common/DESCRIPTION
index 2cf050e896..2ba46c85b7 100644
--- a/paws.common/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/paws.common/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: paws.common
 Type: Package
 Title: Paws Low-Level Amazon Web Services API
-Version: 0.3.0
+Version: 0.3.1
 Authors@R: c(
         person("David", "Kretch", email = "david.kretch@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
         person("Adam", "Banker", email = "adam.banker39@gmail.com", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/paws.common/NEWS.md b/paws.common/NEWS.md
index 97cca6fd73..5c9ffc4248 100644
--- a/paws.common/NEWS.md
+++ b/paws.common/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+# paws.common 0.3.1
+
+* Read in session tokens from shared credential files.
+* Fix handling of dates when used as arguments to CloudWatch and other APIs.
+  Previously the operation would submit the date in an inappropriate format.
+* Fix handling of profiles when specified for a specific service, e.g.
+  `paws::svc(config = list(credentials = list(profile = "my-profile")))`.
+  Previously the profile was not used to get credentials.
+* Fix handling of operations that return nothing -- return an empty object
+  rather than failing.
+
 # paws.common 0.3.0
 
 * Add HTTP status codes to the error response when an operation fails, along