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diff --git a/Changelog.md b/Changelog.md
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-
-# Changelog
-
-
-## [1.2.0] - 2025-03-21
-**New features**
-* allow metafounders, defined as “MF_”, in the pedigree file input ({pr}`175`, {user}`RosCraddock`, {user}`XingerTang`)
-
-* added ``alt_allele_prob_file`` to allow user-inputted alternative allele frequencies for each metafounder and loci. For now, these are restricted to be between 0.01 and 0.99 ({pr}`175`, {user}`RosCraddock`, {user}`XingerTang`)
-
-* added ``main_metafounder`` to allow user to assign the default metafounder to use where a metafounder has not been assigned to a founder in the pedigree ({pr}`175`, {user}`RosCraddock`, {user}`XingerTang`)
-
-* added ``update_alt_allele_prob`` to allow the base alternative allele frequencies to be updated after each peeling cycle based on the mean of the founders within the assigned metafounder ({pr}`182`, {user}`RosCraddock`)
-
-**Bug fixes**
-* Fixed bug due to setuptools package being updated for all wheel file naming to follow binary distribution specification (i.e all lower case) and updated documentation ({pr}`182`, {user}`RosCraddock`)
-
-**Maintenance**
-* User-warnings and documentation updates for metafounder implementation and estimation of alternative allele frequency ({pr} `152`, {pr}`175`, {pr}`182`, {user}`RosCraddock`, {user}`XingerTang`)
-
-* Functional and accuracy tests for metafounder implementation ({pr}`156`, {pr}`182`, {user}`XingerTang`, {user}`RosCraddock`)
-
-* Updated reference to tinyhouse ({pr}`177`, {user}`XingerTang`)
-
-
-## [1.1.6] - 2024-10-22
-**New features**
-* Addition of map file input for non-hybrid mode ({pr}`154`, {user}`XingerTang`)
-
-**Bug fixes**
-* resolved bug to produce output file with ``-hap`` and ``-geno`` ({pr}`157`, {user}`AprilYUZhang`)
-
-**Maintenance**
-* set default hap and geno threshold as 1/3 when calling genotypes ({pr}`157`, {user}`AprilYUZhang`)
-
-## [1.1.5] - 2023-12-01
-**New features**
-* Addition of output options: ``geno``, and ``hap_threshold`` ({pr}`119`, {user}``AprilYuZhang`)
-
-**Maintenance**
-* Updates in option and file names. These include:
-
-  * ``no_dosages`` to ``no_dosage``
-  * ``calling_threshold`` to ``geno_threshold``
-  * ``call_phase`` to ``hap``
-  * ``haps`` to ``phased_geno_prob``
-  * ``pedigree`` to ``ped_file``
-  * ``genotypes`` to ``geno_file``
-  * and more, for all changes please visit: https://github.com/AlphaGenes/AlphaPeel/issues/113#issue-1935197000 ({pr}`105`, {pr}`115`, {pr}`122`, {user}`XingerTang`, {user}`AprilYuZhang`)
-
-* Updates the documentation and help functions ({pr}`88`, {pr}`119`, {user}`XingerTang`, {user}`AprilYuZhang`).
-
-* Updates to accuracy and functional tests for new argument names ({pr}`126`, {pr}`130`, {pr}`131`, {user}`XingerTang`).
-
-## [1.1.4] - 2023-08-25
-**New features**
-* Implementation of functional and accuracy testing with pytest ({pr}`53`, {user}`XingerTang`)
-
-* Implementation of pre-committ protocol through Black and Flake8 ({pr}`40`, {user}`XingerTang`)
-
-* Implementation of cross-platform tests workflow through github actions ({pr}`59`, {user}`XingerTang`)
-
-* Added instructions for how to contribute to AlphaPeel ({pr}`27`, {pr}`31`, {user}`XingerTang`)
-
-**Bug Fixes**
-* Fixed bug on the loading of submodule ({pr}`22`, {user}`XingerTang`)
-
-**Maintenance**
-* Update theme for the HTML documentation ({pr}`38`, {user}`XingerTang`)
-
-* Modified the URL for installation ({pr}`11`, {user}`XingerTang`)
diff --git a/docs/source/introduction.rst b/docs/source/introduction.rst
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--- a/docs/source/introduction.rst
+++ b/docs/source/introduction.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Introduction
 Availability
 ------------
 
-|Software| is available as open-source from `Github <https://github.com/AlphaGenes/AlphaPeel>`_ website and can be easily installed using ``pip install AlphaPeel`` (the latest release).
+|Software| is available as open-source from `GitHub <https://github.com/AlphaGenes/AlphaPeel>`_ website and can be easily installed using ``pip install AlphaPeel`` (the latest release).
 
 Please report any issues at `<https://github.com/AlphaGenes/AlphaPeel/issues>`_.
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 51c254c..f1f2f64 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 name = "AlphaPeel"
 version = "1.3.0"
 authors = [
-  { name="Andrew Whalen", email="awhalen@roslin.ed.ac.uk" },
+  { name="Andrew Whalen", email="alphagenes.dev@gmail.com" },
 ]
 description = "Multilocus and hybrid peeling"
 # readme corresponds to the long_description