diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 13e87e8..e59d8c7 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,15 +1,18 @@
 Package: incidence
 Type: Package
 Title: Compute, Handle, Plot and Model Incidence of Dated Events
-Version: 1.5.3.99
+Version: 1.5.4
 Authors@R: c(
   person("Thibaut", "Jombart", role = c("aut"), email = "thibautjombart@gmail.com"), 
-  person("Zhian N.", "Kamvar", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "zkamvar@gmail.com"),
+  person("Zhian N.", "Kamvar", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "zkamvar@gmail.com",
+         comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1458-7108")),
   person("Rich", "FitzJohn", role = "aut", email = "rich.fitzjohn@gmail.com"), 
   person("Jun", "Cai", role = "ctb", email = "cai-j12@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn"), 
   person("Sangeeta", "Bhatia", role = "ctb", email = "sangeetabhatia03@gmail.com"),
   person("Jakob", "Schumacher", role = "ctb"),
-  person("Juliet R.C.", "Pulliam", role = "ctb", email = "pulliam@sun.ac.za"))
+  person("Juliet R.C.", "Pulliam", role = "ctb", email = "pulliam@sun.ac.za",
+         comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-3314-8223"))
+  )
 Description: Provides functions and classes to compute, handle and visualise incidence from dated events for a defined time interval. Dates can be provided in various standard formats. The class 'incidence' is used to store computed incidence and can be easily manipulated, subsetted, and plotted. In addition, log-linear models can be fitted to 'incidence' objects using 'fit'. This package is part of the RECON (<http://www.repidemicsconsortium.org/>) toolkit for outbreak analysis.
 Encoding: UTF-8
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index e29b6d1..eed664e 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-incidence 1.5.4 unreleased
+incidence 1.5.4 (2019-01-15)
 ============================
 
 ### BUG FIX
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index b33164a..c1679fa 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 ## Notes to CRAN
 
-This is a re-submission because of a rejection from an automated check that failed on debian. I have fixed the error and am resubmitting.
+This submission fixes a spuriously failing test, highlighted by Brian Ripley. It was fixed in https://github.com/reconhub/incidence/issues/95. 
 
 ## Test environments
 
-* ubuntu 16.04, R 3.5.1
-* ubuntu 16.04, (on travis-ci), 
-* ubuntu 14.04 (on travis-ci), R devel [2018-11-29 r75719]
-* win-builder (devel [2018-11-28 r75713] and release)
+* ubuntu 16.04, R 3.5.2
+* MacOS 10.14.2, R 3.5.2
+* ubuntu 14.04, (on travis-ci), 
+* ubuntu 14.04 (on travis-ci), R devel [2019-01-14 r75992]
+* win-builder (devel [2019-01-09 r75961] and release)
 
 ## R CMD check results