diff --git a/CRAN-SUBMISSION b/CRAN-SUBMISSION
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-Version: 2.5.0
-Date: 2024-07-12 15:21:18 UTC
-SHA: 41e6804521954a185f186aae3c970493e6195ba9
+Version: 2.6.0
+Date: 2024-08-17 15:06:30 UTC
+SHA: b46552ad32230999d13182b3cad2c073213c84eb
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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 ### Major bug fix
 
-Fixes a major bug, by which responses would be used as covariates in the random forests. Thanks for reporting @flystar233 (PR #78).
-
-You can expect to get
-
-- different imputations,
-- better and more logical imputations,
-- less good stated OOB prediction errors,
-- higher variability in multiple imputation settings.
-
+Fixes a major bug, by which responses would be used as covariates in the random forests. Thanks for reporting [@flystar233](https://github.com/flystar233), see [#78](https://github.com/mayer79/missRanger/pull/78).
+You can expect different and better imputations.
 
 ### Major feature
 
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
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 Hello CRAN
 
 This update
-- fixes a major bug introduced in 2.3.0
+- fixes a major bug,
 - and brings a long awaited feature of out-of-sample application of the imputation models.
 
 ## R CMD check (local)