diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index ef25d9d97..f16531d3c 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 
 # renv (development version)
 
+* `renv` now assumes that Artifactory package repositories will use a CRAN-like
+  layout of packages for packages in the archive. (#1996)
+
 * `renv` now includes compiled extensions on Linux + macOS. These
   extensions are primarily used to improve the performance of
   `renv::dependencies()` and other static analysis code.
diff --git a/R/retrieve.R b/R/retrieve.R
index 20a303713..891f8367a 100644
--- a/R/retrieve.R
+++ b/R/retrieve.R
@@ -953,8 +953,9 @@ renv_retrieve_repos_archive_formatter <- function(url) {
       with(record, file.path(repo, "src/contrib/Archive", Package))
     },
     
-    # format used by Artifactory
+    # format used by older releases of Artifactory
     # https://github.com/rstudio/renv/issues/602
+    # https://github.com/rstudio/renv/issues/1996
     artifactory = function(repo, record) {
       with(record, file.path(repo, "src/contrib/Archive", Package, Version))
     },
@@ -981,7 +982,7 @@ renv_retrieve_repos_archive_formatter <- function(url) {
   
   # use the headers to infer the repository type
   if ("x-artifactory-id" %in% names(headers)) {
-    formatters[["artifactory"]]
+    formatters[["cran"]]
   } else if (grepl("Nexus", headers[["server"]] %||% "")) {
     formatters[["nexus"]]
   } else {