diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 0546638..f654f7d 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Package: seasonal
 Type: Package
 Title: R Interface to X-13-ARIMA-SEATS
-Version: 1.7.0
-Date: 2018-12-20
+Version: 1.7.1
+Date: 2020-06-06
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Christoph", "Sax", email = "christoph.sax@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-7192-7044")),
     person("Dirk", "Eddelbuettel", role = c("ctb"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-6419-907X"))
@@ -24,5 +24,5 @@ License: GPL-3
 URL: http://www.seasonal.website
 BugReports: https://github.com/christophsax/seasonal
 LazyData: true
-RoxygenNote: 6.1.1
+RoxygenNote: 7.1.0
 Encoding: UTF-8
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7df4994..5d50f8a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+1.7.1  2020-06-06
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+bug fix
+  - specify convert.type(as.is = TRUE), to comply with next R
+
+
 1.7.0  2018-12-19
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------