diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Package: restatapi
 Type: Package
 Title: Search and Retrieve Data from Eurostat Database
-Date: 2023-08-01
-Version: 0.21.1
+Date: 2023-08-09
+Version: 0.21.2
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Authors@R: c(person("Mátyás", "Mészáros", email = "matyas.meszaros@ec.europa.eu", role = c("aut", "cre")),
             person("Sebastian", "Weinand", role = "ctb"))
@@ -19,5 +19,3 @@ URL: https://github.com/eurostat/restatapi
 BugReports: https://github.com/eurostat/restatapi/issues
 RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
 Packaged: 2021-10-06 08:46:52 UTC; mmeszaros
-Author: Mátyás Mészáros [aut, cre]
-Maintainer: Mátyás Mészáros <matyas.meszaros@ec.europa.eu>
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# restatapi 0.21.2
+
+- update of authors 
+- CRAN release
+
 # restatapi 0.21.1
 
 - correction of the `get_eurostat_dsd()` function so the result is a data.table