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+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ bench
 ^.*\.Rproj$
 ^\.Rproj\.user$
 ^\.travis\.yml$
-^NEWS\.md$
 ^revdep$
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diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 17d41d7..b27d9b2 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: reshape2
 Title: Flexibly Reshape Data: A Reboot of the Reshape Package
-Version: 1.4.2.9000
+Version: 1.4.3
 Author: Hadley Wickham <h.wickham@gmail.com>
 Maintainer: Hadley Wickham <h.wickham@gmail.com>
 Description: Flexibly restructure and aggregate data using just two
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index d11747d..fe2773b 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-# Version 1.4.2.9000
+# Version 1.4.3
+
+* Fix C/C++ problems causing R CMD CHECK errors.
 
 * `melt.data.frame()` throws when encountering objects of type `POSIXlt`,
   and requests a conversion to the (much saner) `POSIXct` type.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9d63980..5433ed1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
-# Reshape2
+# reshape2
 
-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/hadley/reshape.png)](https://travis-ci.org/hadley/reshape)
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/hadley/reshape.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/hadley/reshape)
+[![Coverage status](https://codecov.io/gh/hadley/reshape/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/github/hadley/reshape?branch=master)
+
+## Status
+[![lifecycle](https://img.shields.io/badge/lifecycle-retired-orange.svg)](https://img.shields.io/badge/lifecycle-retired-orange.svg)
+
+reshape2 is retired: only changes necessary to keep it on CRAN will be made. We recommend using [tidyr](http://tidyr.tidyverse.org/) instead.
+
+## Introduction
 
 Reshape2 is a reboot of the reshape package. It's been over five years since the first release of reshape, and in that time I've learned a tremendous amount about R programming, and how to work with data in R. Reshape2 uses that knowledge to make a new package for reshaping data that is much more focused and much much faster.
 
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index c5acd5a..c134362 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ## Test environments
-* local OS X install, R 3.3.1
-* ubuntu 12.04 (on travis-ci), R 3.3.1
-* win-builder (devel and release)
+* local OS X install, R-release
+* ubuntu 12.04 (on travis-ci), R 3.1. 3.2, 3.3, release, devel
+* win-builder (R-devel)
 
 ## R CMD check results
 
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@
 
 ## Reverse dependencies
 
-This release is just a couple of minor R CMD check fixes, so I did not check the reverse dependencies.
+This release fixes R CMD check errors and notesl I did not check the reverse dependencies.