diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Package: terra
 Type: Package
 Title: Spatial Data Analysis
 Version: 1.7-73
-Date: 2024-02-09
+Date: 2024-02-13
 Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
 Suggests: parallel, tinytest, ncdf4, sf (>= 0.9-8), deldir, XML, leaflet (>= 2.2.1), htmlwidgets
 LinkingTo: Rcpp
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 4dfb3a1c1..e5d6a5ea4 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 # version 1.7-73
 
+## bug fixes
+
+- `writeVector` and `readVector` better handle empty geopackage layers [#1426](https://github.com/rspatial/terra/issues/1426) by Andrew Gene Brown.
+
 ## enhancements
 
 - `extract` has new argument "small=TRUE" to allow for strict use of "touches=FALSE" [#1419](https://github.com/rspatial/terra/issues/1419) by Floris Vanderhaeghe.
 - `as.list<SpatRaster>` has new argument "geom=NULL"
 - `rast<list>` now recognizes (x, y, z) base R "image" structures [stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77949551/rspatial-convert-a-grid-list-to-a-raster-using-terra) by Ignacio Marzan.
+- `inset` has new arguments "offset" and "add" [#1422](https://github.com/rspatial/terra/issues/1422) by Armand-CT
 
 ## new 
 
diff --git a/man/costDist.Rd b/man/costDist.Rd
index a505e8fb3..797277b3c 100644
--- a/man/costDist.Rd
+++ b/man/costDist.Rd
@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@
 \name{costDist}
 
-\alias{costDistance}
-\alias{costDistance,SpatRaster-method}
-
 \alias{costDist}
 \alias{costDist,SpatRaster-method}
 
-
-\title{Cost distance}
+\title{Cost-distance}
 
 \description{