diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index fd6bda7..7d62a28 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@
 ^.*\.R\.tmp\.R$
 ^_config.yml$
 ^cran-comments\.md$
-^NEWS\.md$
 ^\.travis\.yml$
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 470549f..6f834b6 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # table1 1.0
 
-* Initial CRAN release.
+* This is the initial release of table1 on CRAN.