diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index a902baf..78c21b6 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Package: VAST
 Type: Package
 Title: Vector-Autoregressive Spatio-Temporal (VAST) Model
-Version: 3.8.2
-Date: 2021-11-08
+Version: 3.9.0
+Date: 2022-03-17
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "James",
              family = "Thorson",
diff --git a/R/zzz.R b/R/zzz.R
index a979d2f..a69cf2b 100644
--- a/R/zzz.R
+++ b/R/zzz.R
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@
   # Also requries moving FishStatsUtils to SUGGESTS, so that it
   # doesn't isntall main branch
 
-  if( !"FishStatsUtils" %in% utils::installed.packages()[,1] || utils::packageVersion("FishStatsUtils") < numeric_version("2.10.2") ){
-    packageStartupMessage("Updating package FishStatsUtils because previously using version < 2.10.2")
-    devtools::install_github("james-thorson/FishStatsUtils", ref="2.10.2")
+  if( !"FishStatsUtils" %in% utils::installed.packages()[,1] || utils::packageVersion("FishStatsUtils") < numeric_version("2.11.0") ){
+    packageStartupMessage("Updating package FishStatsUtils because previously using version < 2.11.0")
+    devtools::install_github("james-thorson/FishStatsUtils", ref="2.11.0")
     ## devtools::install_github("james-thorson/FishStatsUtils", ref='development', INSTALL_opts="--no-staged-install")
   }
   packageStartupMessage( "Loading package `FishStatsUtils` version ", packageVersion("FishStatsUtils") )