diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: migraph
 Title: Inferential Methods for Multimodal and Other Networks 
-Version: 1.6.4
+Version: 1.6.5
 Description: A set of tools for testing networks.
    It includes functions for univariate and multivariate 
    conditional uniform graph and quadratic assignment procedure testing,
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Depends:
     R (>= 4.1.0),
     manynet (>= 2.1.2),
     autograph (>= 0.4.0),
-    netrics
+    netrics (>= 0.3.1)
 Imports: 
     dplyr (>= 1.1.0),
     ergm,
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+# migraph 1.6.5
+
+2026-06-22
+
+## Package
+
+- Updated netrics dependency to 0.3.1 to fix reverse dependency issue
+
 # migraph 1.6.4
 
 2026-06-22
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
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 - Updated manynet dependency to 1.2.1 to fix reverse dependency issue
+- Updated netrics dependency to 0.3.1 to fix reverse dependency issue