diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 8dae56ca..451c7a15 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: epidatr
 Type: Package
 Title: Client for Delphi's 'Epidata' API
-Version: 1.1.5
+Version: 1.2.0
 Authors@R:
   c(
     person("Logan", "Brooks", email = "lcbrooks@andrew.cmu.edu", role = c("aut")),
diff --git a/DEVELOPMENT.md b/DEVELOPMENT.md
index 46d52ad9..792da66c 100644
--- a/DEVELOPMENT.md
+++ b/DEVELOPMENT.md
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Open a release issue and then copy and follow this checklist in the issue (modif
 
 - [ ] `git pull` on `dev` branch.
 - [ ] Make sure all changes are committed and pushed.
-- [ ] Check [current CRAN check results](https://cran.rstudio.org/web/checks/check_results_epiprocess.html).
+- [ ] Check [current CRAN check results](https://cran.rstudio.org/web/checks/check_results_epidatr.html).
 - [ ] `devtools::check(".", manual = TRUE, env_vars = c(NOT_CRAN = "false"))`.
   - Aim for 10/10, no notes.
 - [ ] If check works well enough, merge to main. Otherwise open a PR to fix up.
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 699607bd..c8e837c3 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 - Improve handling of the `EPIDATR_USE_CACHE` environment variable, allowing it
   to be any value convertable by `as.logical()` and handle the case when it
   can't be converted.
+- Support more date formats in function to convert dates to epiweeks. Use `parse_api_date` since it already supports both common formats. #276
+- `EPIDATR_USE_CACHE` only supported exactly "TRUE" before. Now it supports all logical values and includes a warning when any value that can't be converted to logical is provided. #273
+- `missing` doesn't count default values as non-missing. If a user doesn't pass `geo_values` or `time_values` (both of which default to `"*"` in `pub_covidcast`), or `dates` (in `pub_covid_hosp_state_timeseries`), the missing check fails. To avoid this, just don't check missingness of those two arguments.
 
 # epidatr 1.1.1
 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-cache.R b/tests/testthat/test-cache.R
index 5ac9d57e..8d75644b 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-cache.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-cache.R
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ test_set_cache <- function(cache_dir = new_temp_dir,
 }
 
 test_that("cache set as expected", {
-  test_set_cache()
+  expect_message(test_set_cache())
   if (grepl("/", as.character(new_temp_dir))) {
     # this is what check produces
     expect_equal(cache_info()$dir, normalizePath(new_temp_dir))
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ test_that("cache set as expected", {
 
 # use an existing example to save, then load and compare the values
 test_that("cache saves & loads", {
-  test_set_cache()
+  expect_message(test_set_cache())
   epidata_call <- pub_covidcast(
     source = "jhu-csse",
     signals = "confirmed_7dav_incidence_prop",
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ test_that("check_is_cachable", {
       expect_false(check_is_cachable(epidata_call, fetch_args))
     }
   }
-  test_set_cache()
+  expect_message(test_set_cache())
   check_fun(expected_result = FALSE) # doesn't specify issues or as_of
   check_fun(as_of = "2020-01-01", expected_result = TRUE) # valid as_of
   check_fun(issues = "2020-01-01", expected_result = TRUE) # valid issues
@@ -178,14 +178,14 @@ test_that("check_is_cachable", {
   # cases where the cache isn't active
   disable_cache()
   check_fun(as_of = "2020-01-01", expected_result = FALSE)
-  test_set_cache()
+  expect_message(test_set_cache())
   cache_environ$epidatr_cache <- NULL
   check_fun(as_of = "2020-01-01", expected_result = FALSE)
-  test_set_cache()
+  expect_message(test_set_cache())
   check_fun(as_of = "2020-01-01", expected_result = TRUE)
 })
 
-test_set_cache()
+expect_message(test_set_cache())
 cache_environ$epidatr_cache$prune()
 clear_cache(disable = TRUE)
 rm(new_temp_dir)