diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 36e1c205e..74d371b82 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: parsnip
 Title: A Common API to Modeling and Analysis Functions
-Version: 1.1.1.9001
+Version: 1.1.1.9002
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Max", "Kuhn", , "max@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Davis", "Vaughan", , "davis@posit.co", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 17cd0f6a8..aa4137e3e 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 
 * Fixed bug where `boost_tree()` models couldn't be fit with 1 predictor if `validation` argument was used. (#994)
 
+* When computing censoring weights, the resulting vectors are no longer named (#1023).
+
 # parsnip 1.1.0
 
 This release of parsnip contains a number of new features and bug fixes, accompanied by several optimizations that substantially decrease the time to `fit()` and `predict()` with the package.
diff --git a/R/standalone-survival.R b/R/standalone-survival.R
index 708d43efa..a75464e85 100644
--- a/R/standalone-survival.R
+++ b/R/standalone-survival.R
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
 #
 # 2023-06-14
 # * removed time to factor conversion
+#
+# 2023-11-09
+# * make sure survival vectors are unnamed.
 
 # @param surv A [survival::Surv()] object
 # @details
@@ -74,6 +77,8 @@
   res <- surv[, colnames(surv) %in% keepers]
   if (NCOL(res) > 1) {
     res <- tibble::tibble(as.data.frame(res))
+  } else {
+    res <- unname(res)
   }
   res
 }
@@ -88,6 +93,6 @@
     (identical(un_vals, 1:2) | identical(un_vals, c(1.0, 2.0))) ) {
     res <- res - 1
   }
-  res
+  unname(res)
 }
 # nocov end