diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 70d7284..5ad7a44 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@
 cran-comments.md
 ^\.github$
 ^pkgdown$
+^cran-comments\.md$
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index ab0eedf..ae10901 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 ## Minor fixes
 
 - updated the author list to acknowledge new contributions
-- updated maintainer email since metajam was removed from CRAN due to former email being slowly decommissioned
+- updated maintainer email since metajam was removed from CRAN due to former email being slowly decommissioned https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/metajam/index.html
 
 
 
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index 7a86abc..a9d3a68 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,16 +1,6 @@
-## Test environments
-
-* local OS X install, R 4.0.3
-* ubuntu 18.04, R 4.0.2
-* win-builder (devel and release)
-
 ## R CMD check results
 
-```
-── R CMD check results ────────────────────────────────────── metajam 0.2.3 ────
-Duration: 2m 16.4s
-
-0 errors ✓ | 0 warnings ✓ | 0 notes ✓
+0 errors | 0 warnings | 1 note
 
-R CMD check succeeded
-```
+* This is a new release.
+https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/metajam/index.html