diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index c562abf..d049065 100755
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: texreg
-Version: 1.39.2
-Date: 2023-06-26
+Version: 1.39.3
+Date: 2023-11-09
 Title: Conversion of R Regression Output to LaTeX or HTML Tables
 Authors@R: c(person(given = "Philip", family = "Leifeld", email = "philip.leifeld@essex.ac.uk", role = c("aut", "cre")),
              person(given = "Claudia", family = "Zucca", email = "c.zucca@jads.nl", role = "ctb"))
diff --git a/R/extract.R b/R/extract.R
index 9480284..5a03f10 100644
--- a/R/extract.R
+++ b/R/extract.R
@@ -4021,7 +4021,7 @@ extract.lme4 <- function(model,
                          include.variance = TRUE,
                          ...) {
 
-  if (utils::packageVersion("lme4") < 1.0) {
+  if (utils::packageVersion("lme4") < "1.0") {
     message("Please update to a newer 'lme4' version for full compatibility.")
   }