diff --git a/R-package/DESCRIPTION b/R-package/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/R-package/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/R-package/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Package: lightgbm
 Type: Package
 Title: Light Gradient Boosting Machine
 Version: 2.2.3
-Date: 2018-11-6
+Date: 2019-02-05
 Authors@R: c(
 	person("Guolin", "Ke", email = "guolin.ke@microsoft.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
 	person("Damien", "Soukhavong", email = "damien.soukhavong@skema.edu", role = c("ctb")),