diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 9e21670..c86846c 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: SewerRat
-Version: 0.2.9
-Date: 2024-10-03
+Version: 0.2.10
+Date: 2024-10-18
 Title: Client for the SewerRat API
 Description: 
     Search metadata files across a shared filesystem via the SewerRat API.
diff --git a/R/startSewerRat.R b/R/startSewerRat.R
index 86d2b73..bdc2861 100644
--- a/R/startSewerRat.R
+++ b/R/startSewerRat.R
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 #' startSewerRat() # initialize a new instance.
 #' 
 #' @export
-startSewerRat <- function(db=tempfile(fileext=".sqlite3"), port=NULL, wait = 1, version = "1.0.9", overwrite = FALSE) {
+startSewerRat <- function(db=tempfile(fileext=".sqlite3"), port=NULL, wait = 1, version = "1.0.11", overwrite = FALSE) {
     if (!is.null(running$active)) {
         return(list(new=FALSE, port=running$port, url=assemble_url(running$port)))
     }
diff --git a/vignettes/userguide.Rmd b/vignettes/userguide.Rmd
index b86caff..03a7133 100644
--- a/vignettes/userguide.Rmd
+++ b/vignettes/userguide.Rmd
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ write(file=file.path(mydir, "stuff", "metadata.json"), '{ "food": "barramundi" }
 
 We can then easily register it with the `register()` function.
 The example below will only index metadata files inside `mydir` named `metadata.json`, though any number of base names can be supplied here.
+We can also instruct SewerRat to skip indexing of a subdirectory within `mydir` by creating a `.SewerRatignore` file inside that subdirectory.
 
 ```{r}
 library(SewerRat)