diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: precommit
 Title: Pre-Commit Hooks
-Version: 0.3.0.9002
+Version: 0.3.1
 Author: Lorenz Walthert
 Maintainer: Lorenz Walthert <lorenz.walthert@icloud.com>
 Description: Useful git hooks for R building on top of the multi-language
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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-# precommit v0.3.0.9000
+# precommit v0.3.1
 
--   Ensure sorting for `spell-check` hook is case-insensitive on all
-    operating systems. This may re-order your whole `inst/WORDLIST`
-    (#405).
+**User visible changes**
+
+-   `.pre-commit-config.yaml` templates now contain hook to validate the
+    [pre-commit.ci](https://pre-commit.ci) configuration (#407).
 -   {git2r} is no longer needed for user side (#417).
+
+**Bug fixes**
+
 -   Fix bug that prevented pkg load outside directories with precommit
     files (@mpadge, #413).
+-   Ensure sorting for `spell-check` hook is case-insensitive on all
+    operating systems. This may re-order your whole `inst/WORDLIST`
+    (#405).
 -   hook `forbid-to-commit` in template `.pre-commit-config.yaml` has
     now the correct `exclude-files` regular expression to ignore `.csv`,
     `.RData`, `.Rds`, `.rds` and `.Rhistory` (#410).
--   `.pre-commit-config.yaml` templates now contain hook to validate the
-    [pre-commit.ci](https://pre-commit.ci) configuration (#407).
+
+**Internals**
+
 -   `options(install.packages.compile.from.source = "never")` is used in
     the CI to avoid failing builds due to missing build-time deps
     (#412).
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index 62d91e636..a8653e10c 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is a re-submission to failing tests caused by a roxygen 7.2.0.
+This is a submission due to user regressions.
 
 ## Test environments
 
diff --git a/inst/pre-commit-config-pkg.yaml b/inst/pre-commit-config-pkg.yaml
index a3cb19710..21de4838a 100644
--- a/inst/pre-commit-config-pkg.yaml
+++ b/inst/pre-commit-config-pkg.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # R specific hooks: https://github.com/lorenzwalthert/precommit
 repos:
 -   repo: https://github.com/lorenzwalthert/precommit
-    rev: v0.3.0.9001
+    rev: v0.3.1
     hooks: 
     -   id: style-files
         args: [--style_pkg=styler, --style_fun=tidyverse_style]    
diff --git a/inst/pre-commit-config-proj.yaml b/inst/pre-commit-config-proj.yaml
index 679b2ed84..68b2ec0ba 100644
--- a/inst/pre-commit-config-proj.yaml
+++ b/inst/pre-commit-config-proj.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # R specific hooks: https://github.com/lorenzwalthert/precommit
 repos:
 -   repo: https://github.com/lorenzwalthert/precommit
-    rev: v0.3.0.9001
+    rev: v0.3.1
     hooks: 
     -   id: style-files
         args: [--style_pkg=styler, --style_fun=tidyverse_style]