diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 934ac08..0e98a7c 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Description: A programmatic interface to the 'SOLR' based
     articles, making plots, doing 'faceted' searches,
     'highlight' searches, and viewing results of 'highlighted'
     searches in a browser.
-Version: 0.5.2.9000
+Version: 0.5.4
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
 Authors@R: c(person("Scott", "Chamberlain", role = c("aut", "cre"),
     email = "myrmecocystus@gmail.com"),
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Imports:
     lubridate,
     reshape2,
     whisker,
-    solr (<= 0.1.4)
+    solr (<= 0.1.6)
 Suggests:
     XML,
     testthat,
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 4e2d687..f3008a0 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+rplos 0.5.4
+------------
+
+### MINOR IMPROVEMENTS
+
+* Change `solr` dependency to require version `v0.1.6` or less (#94)
+
 rplos 0.5.2
 ------------
 
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index e4bdfa5..caa11b9 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
-R CMD CHECK passed on my local OS X install on R 3.2.1 and R development
+R CMD CHECK passed on my local OS X install on R 3.2.2 and R development
 version, Ubuntu running on Travis-CI, and Win-Builder.
 
-This submission has a fix for encoding of XML data, and added a number of 
-new tests.
+This submission is simply to bump requirement of solr v0.1.4 to v0.1.6
+so that I can submit a new version of solr to CRAN.  I am making big 
+changes in the solr package, so I don't want newer versions of the 
+package to break this package.
 
 Thanks! Scott Chamberlain