diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index b8d6995..ebc5889 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ _pkgdown.yml
 ^pkgdown$
 ^cran-comments\.md$
 ^\.vscode$
+^CRAN-SUBMISSION$
diff --git a/CRAN-SUBMISSION b/CRAN-SUBMISSION
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bd3a28e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CRAN-SUBMISSION
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Version: 0.5-1
+Date: 2025-02-03 02:04:01 UTC
+SHA: 61d947fb077d4e99f2be382696a15bb821e1841c
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 556b76e..567ef78 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: rgrass
 Version: 0.5-1
-Date: 2025-01-06
+Date: 2025-02-02
 Title: Interface Between 'GRASS' Geographical Information System and 'R'
 Authors@R: c(
 	person("Roger", "Bivand", role = c("aut"), email = "Roger.Bivand@nhh.no", comment=c(ORCID="0000-0003-2392-6140")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 297fac3..fcc8fe3 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# **rgrass** version 0.5-1 (2025-01-31)
+# **rgrass** version 0.5-1 (2025-02-02)
 
 - see #96, transfer maintainership to Steven Pawley