diff --git a/CRAN-RELEASE b/CRAN-RELEASE
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+This package was submitted to CRAN on 2019-12-19.
+Once it is accepted, delete this file and tag the release (commit 3ccc9e5a2b).
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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 Package: rwhatsapp
 Title: Import and Handling for 'WhatsApp' Chat Logs
-Version: 0.2.1.9000
+Version: 0.2.1
 Date: 2019-12-19
 Authors@R: person("Johannes", "Gruber", email = "j.gruber.1@research.gla.ac.uk",
   role = c("aut", "cre"))
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
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@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 ## Test environments
-* local Kubuntu 18.04, R version 3.6.1
+* local Kubuntu 18.04, R version 3.6.2
 * win-builder.r-project.org, R-release, R-oldrelease, R-devel
 * R-hub via rhub::check_for_cran()
 * macOS 10.13 (on travis-ci), R: release
 * Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 (on travis-ci), R: release, R: oldrel, R: devel
 
 ## R CMD check results
-0 ERRORs | 0 WARNINGs | 2 NOTEs
+0 ERRORs | 0 WARNINGs | 1 NOTEs
 
-* This is a new release.
 * 1 Note on travis-ci: found 3619 marked UTF-8 strings (this is because of the included emoji data)