diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index a6d0d4e..946481d 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Type: Package
 Package: ropenaq
 Title: Accesses Air Quality Data from the Open Data Platform
     OpenAQ
-Version: 0.2.8.9000
+Version: 0.2.9
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Maëlle",
              family = "Salmon",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# ropenaq (development version)
+# ropenaq 0.2.9
 
 * Skip a vcr-enabled test on CRAN because of a (known, under investigation) vcr problem with encoding. https://github.com/ropensci/vcr/issues/158
 
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index 62f81ec..fcebcdd 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+This is a patch release to fix a failing CRAN check and a missed bug, sorry.
+
 ## Test environments
 * local Ubuntu install, R 3.6
 * Windows, macOS, Ubuntu with GitHub Actions
@@ -8,7 +10,9 @@
 
 ## R CMD check results
 
-0 errors | 0 warnings | 0 note
+0 errors | 0 warnings | 1 note
+
+Days since last update: 3
 
 ## Release summary