diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 67a23f6..cc44e93 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2022-10-05  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd@debian.org>
+
+	* DESCRIPTION (Version, Date): New release 0.3.14
+
+	* R/bdh.R (bdh): Replace a class() test with inherits()
+
 2022-10-04  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd@debian.org>
 
 	* DESCRIPTION (Suggests): No longer suggest 'fts'
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index edeba55..b863728 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: Rblpapi
 Title: R Interface to 'Bloomberg'
-Version: 0.3.13.2
-Date: 2022-10-04
+Version: 0.3.14
+Date: 2022-10-05
 Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
 Author: Whit Armstrong, Dirk Eddelbuettel and John Laing
 Imports: Rcpp (>= 0.11.0), utils
diff --git a/R/bdh.R b/R/bdh.R
index 9818c6f..15211d4 100644
--- a/R/bdh.R
+++ b/R/bdh.R
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ bdh <- function(securities, fields, start.date, end.date=NULL,
                 int.as.double=getOption("blpIntAsDouble", FALSE),
                 simplify=getOption("blpSimplify", TRUE)) {
     match.arg(returnAs, c("data.frame", "xts", "zoo", "data.table"))
-    if (class(start.date) == "Date") {
+    if (inherits(start.date, "Date")) {
         start.date <- format(start.date, format="%Y%m%d")
     }
     if (!is.null(end.date)) {
diff --git a/inst/NEWS.Rd b/inst/NEWS.Rd
index b3f9d40..ea9f6ae 100644
--- a/inst/NEWS.Rd
+++ b/inst/NEWS.Rd
@@ -4,6 +4,21 @@
 \newcommand{\ghpr}{\href{https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/pull/#1}{##1}}
 \newcommand{\ghit}{\href{https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/issues/#1}{##1}}
 
+\section{Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.14 (2022-10-05)}{
+  \itemize{
+    \item Build configuration was generalized to consider local copies
+    of library and headers (Dirk in \ghpr{362})
+    \item A ticker symbol was corrected (Dirk in \ghpr{368} addressing
+    an issue \ghit{366} and \ghit{367})
+    \item Support for B-PIPE was added (Robert Harlow in \ghpr{369}
+    closing \ghit{342})
+    \item The package no longer requires staged installation thanks to
+    an assist from Tomas Kalibera (Dirk in \ghpr{373})
+    \item The retired package \pkg{fts} is no longer suggested (Dirk in
+    \ghpr{374} closing \ghpr{372}) 
+  }
+}
+
 \section{Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.13 (2022-01-09)}{
   \itemize{
     \item Add a test for \code{bds} (Michael Kerber in \ghpr{352})