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 rplos 0.5.0
 ------------
 
-## NEW FEATURES
+## MINOR IMPROVEMENTS
 
-* xxx
+* Now importing non-Base R functions from `utils`, `stats`, and `methods` packages (#90)
 
 ## BUG FIXES
 
-* xxx
+* Fixes for `httr` `v1` that broke `rplos` when length 0 list passed to `query` parameter (#89)
 
 
 rplos 0.4.7
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
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-R CMD CHECK passed on my local OS X install on R 3.2.0 and R development
+R CMD CHECK passed on my local OS X install on R 3.2.1 and R development
 version, Ubuntu running on Travis-CI, and Win-Builder.
 
-This version includes a fix requested by CRAN:
-- Add vignettes/figure to .Rbuildignore 
+This submission is mostly to fix a number of broken functions due to the
+recent update in httr on CRAN to v1.0.
 
-In addition, this submission includes a fix for the DESCRIPTION file 
-to quote non-words.
+In addition, this package now imports non-base functions explicitly as 
+needed in accordance with R-devel changes. 
 
 Thanks! Scott Chamberlain