diff --git a/paws.common/DESCRIPTION b/paws.common/DESCRIPTION
index 194702948..fd63aae5f 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: 0.7.3
+Version: 0.7.3.9000
 Authors@R: c(
         person("David", "Kretch", email = "david.kretch@gmail.com", role = "aut"),
         person("Adam", "Banker", email = "adam.banker39@gmail.com", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/paws.common/NEWS.md b/paws.common/NEWS.md
index 1dcdb7afc..9ee2045b9 100644
--- a/paws.common/NEWS.md
+++ b/paws.common/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# paws.common 0.7.3.9000
+* fix `transpose` to correctly parse lists with empty first elements (#791), thanks to @FMKerckhof for raising issue.
+
 # paws.common 0.7.3
 * fix `xml_parse` to correctly parse empty elements (#783) thanks to @stevepowell99 for raising issue