diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 6116f2f..61314dd 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: litedown
 Type: Package
 Title: A Lightweight Version of R Markdown
-Version: 0.7
+Version: 0.7.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Yihui", "Xie", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "xie@yihui.name", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0645-5666", URL = "https://yihui.org")),
     person("Tim", "Taylor", role = "ctb", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8587-7113")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index ca33cd3..1b9d024 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# CHANGES IN litedown VERSION 0.7
+# CHANGES IN litedown VERSION 0.7.1
 
 - `pkg_manual()` will exclude help pages with the keyword `internal` (thanks, @TimTaylor, #78).
 
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
 
 - Deleted vignettes `markdown-examples` and `markdown-output`. They are rendered on the package site now: https://git.yihui.org/litedown/examples/test-options.html
 
+- Allows absolute paths in filename dependencies in `vest()`.
+
+- Allows `meta` to be specified in chunk options.
+
 # CHANGES IN litedown VERSION 0.6
 
 - Added a Markdown rendering option `offline` to download web resources when this option is set to true, so that the HTML output can be viewed offline (thanks, @TimTaylor, #73). See https://yihui.org/litedown/#sec:offline for more info.
diff --git a/R/mark.R b/R/mark.R
index 2732a83..80bc9d8 100644
--- a/R/mark.R
+++ b/R/mark.R
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ mark = function(input, output = NULL, text = NULL, options = NULL, meta = list()
     yaml[intersect(names(yaml), top_meta)],
     yaml_field(yaml, format),
     list(generator = I(paste('litedown', packageVersion('litedown')))),
+    reactor("meta"),
     meta
   )
   meta = normalize_meta(meta)
diff --git a/R/utils.R b/R/utils.R
index 5f5a4f5..492af79 100644
--- a/R/utils.R
+++ b/R/utils.R
@@ -1289,6 +1289,7 @@ gen_tag = function(
   } else stop("The file extension '", ext, "' is not supported.")
   is_web = is_https(x)
   is_rel = !is_web && is_rel_path(x)
+  is_abs = !is_web && is_abs_path(x)
   if (is_web && embed_https && xfun::url_filename(x) == 'MathJax.js') {
     warning('MathJax.js cannot be embedded. Please use MathJax v3 instead.')
     embed_https = FALSE
@@ -1302,6 +1303,8 @@ gen_tag = function(
       x, offline, handler = function(code) resolve_url(x, code, ext, FALSE)
     )
     sprintf(t1, x)
+  } else if (is_abs) {
+    one_string(c(t2[1], read_utf8(x), t2[2]))
   } else {
     # embedding for other cases
     one_string(c(t2[1], resolve_external(x, is_web, ext), t2[2]))