diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index e45633b0..593f1038 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: epipredict
 Title: Basic epidemiology forecasting methods
-Version: 0.1.8
+Version: 0.1.9
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Daniel J.", "McDonald", , "daniel@stat.ubc.ca", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Ryan", "Tibshirani", , "ryantibs@cmu.edu", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 633086cb..6b98d4d5 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ Pre-1.0.0 numbering scheme: 0.x will indicate releases, while 0.0.x will indicat
 
 - Moved example datasets from being hosted in the package to being loaded
   from the `epidatasets` package. The datasets can no longer be loaded with
-  `data(<dataset name>)`, but can be accessed with 
-  `data(<dataset name>, package = "epidatasets")`, `epidatasets::<dataset name>` 
+  `data(<dataset name>)`, but can be accessed with
+  `data(<dataset name>, package = "epidatasets")`, `epidatasets::<dataset name>`
   or, after loading the package, the name of the dataset alone (#382).
 
 ## Improvements
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Pre-1.0.0 numbering scheme: 0.x will indicate releases, while 0.0.x will indicat
 - dist_quantiles can have all `NA` values without causing unrelated errors
 - adjust default quantiles throughout so that they match.
 - force `layer_residual_quantiles()` to always include `0.5`.
+- Rename `recipes:::check_training_set()` to `recipes:::validate_training_data()`, as it changed in recipes 1.1.0.
 
 # epipredict 0.1
 
diff --git a/R/epi_recipe.R b/R/epi_recipe.R
index c82ac167..d1d183cc 100644
--- a/R/epi_recipe.R
+++ b/R/epi_recipe.R
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ prep.epi_recipe <- function(
       "!" = "to avoid addtional warning messages."
     ))
   }
-  training <- recipes:::check_training_set(training, x, fresh)
+  training <- recipes:::validate_training_data(training, x, fresh)
   training <- epi_check_training_set(training, x)
   training <- relocate(training, all_of(key_colnames(training)))
   tr_data <- recipes:::train_info(training)