diff --git a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
index 15b51d3..14159b7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Workflow derived from https://github.com/r-lib/actions/tree/master/examples
+# Workflow derived from https://github.com/r-lib/actions/tree/v2/examples
 # Need help debugging build failures? Start at https://github.com/r-lib/actions#where-to-find-help
 on:
   push:
@@ -10,37 +10,41 @@ name: R-CMD-check
 
 jobs:
   R-CMD-check:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.os }}
+
+    name: ${{ matrix.config.os }} (${{ matrix.config.r }})
+
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        config:
+          - {os: macos-latest,   r: 'release'}
+          - {os: windows-latest, r: 'release'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'devel', http-user-agent: 'release'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'release'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'oldrel-1'}
+
     env:
       GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
       R_KEEP_PKG_SOURCE: yes
+
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v2
 
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v1
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2
         with:
+          r-version: ${{ matrix.config.r }}
+          http-user-agent: ${{ matrix.config.http-user-agent }}
           use-public-rspm: true
 
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v1
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v2
         with:
-          extra-packages: rcmdcheck
-
-      - name: Check
-        env:
-          _R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_: false
-        run: |
-          options(crayon.enabled = TRUE)
-          rcmdcheck::rcmdcheck(args = c("--no-manual", "--as-cran"), error_on = "warning", check_dir = "check")
-        shell: Rscript {0}
-
-      - name: Show testthat output
-        if: always()
-        run: find check -name 'testthat.Rout*' -exec cat '{}' \; || true
-        shell: bash
-
-      - name: Upload check results
-        if: failure()
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@main
+          extra-packages: any::rcmdcheck
+          needs: check
+
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/check-r-package@v2
         with:
-          name: ${{ runner.os }}-r${{ matrix.config.r }}-results
-          path: check
+          upload-snapshots: true
+          build_args: 'c("--no-manual","--compact-vignettes=gs+qpdf")'
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index f544dd3..609f717 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# ghibli 0.3.4
+
+* remove failing tests due to incoming ggplot2 version (3.5.0)
+* use testthat 3rd edition
+
 # ghibli 0.3.3
 
 * apply new HTML5 fixes for CRAN