diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index d6c8b94..1bc8e13 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: NEONiso
 Type: Package
 Title: Tools to Calibrate and Work with NEON Atmospheric Isotope Data
-Version: 0.5.2
+Version: 0.5.3
 Authors@R: c(person("Rich", "Fiorella", email = "rich.fiorella@utah.edu",
                 role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-0824-4777")),
            person(c("Gabriel", "J."), "Bowen", email = 'gabe.bowen@utah.edu',
@@ -27,9 +27,7 @@ RoxygenNote: 7.1.2
 Imports:
     dplyr,
     zoo,
-    downloader,
     httr,
-    jsonlite,
     lubridate,
     neonUtilities (>= 2.0.1),
     magrittr,
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 8b68515..8e02b3a 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# NEONiso 0.5.3
+
+* Small maintenance release that addresses a NOTE on CRAN.
+
 # NEONiso 0.5.2
 
 * Fixes a bug where an rhdf5 function was not being imported properly,
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index b4b7bc9..7858802 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -12,11 +12,7 @@
 R CMD check does not run due to an error in 'session info' 
 (Error: invalid version specification '<NA'>). This error does not seem to be related
 to the package itself.
-* No errors or warnings on win-builder. Fixed a URL as requested by Uwe Ligges.
-Note generated now that this is a "new submission," as package was archived earlier
-today. I just moved however, and wasn't able to get the new package accepted by CRAN
-within the two weeks. 
-
+* No errors or warnings on win-builder.
 
 * Auto-check will issue a warning about misspelled words in DESCRIPTION, but the words flagged are all correct.