diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 093bfc1..305e2b1 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ Description: Client for 'jq', a JSON processor (<http://stedolan.github.io/jq/>)
     in C. 'jq' allows the following with JSON data: index into, parse, do calculations,
     cut up and filter, change key names and values, perform conditionals and comparisons,
     and more.
-Version: 0.2.3.9000
+Version: 0.2.4
 Depends:
     R (>= 3.1.2)
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
 LazyData: true
 Authors@R: c(person("Rich", "FitzJohn", role = "aut",
     email = "rich.fitzjohn@gmail.com"),
-    person("Jeroen", "Ooms", role = "aut"), 
+    person("Jeroen", "Ooms", role = "aut"),
     person("Scott", "Chamberlain", role = c("aut", "cre"),
     email = "myrmecocystus@gmail.com"),
     person("Stefan Milton Bache", role = "aut",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index ee8a14e..bea762b 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+jqr 0.2.4
+=========
+
+## Fixes for CRAN
+
+* Fixed the ASAN/valgrind problem (use after free) in jqr.cpp
+
 jqr 0.2.3
 =========