diff --git a/r-pkg/DESCRIPTION b/r-pkg/DESCRIPTION
index 0447f70..5a06af1 100644
--- a/r-pkg/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/r-pkg/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 Package: jgd
 Title: JSON Graphics Device
-Version: 0.2.0
+Version: 0.2.1
+Date: 2026-10-07
 Authors@R: c(
         person("Grant", "McDermott", role = c("aut", "cre"),
             email = "contact@grantmcdermott.com"),
diff --git a/r-pkg/NEWS.md b/r-pkg/NEWS.md
index 57b7a77..c838d98 100644
--- a/r-pkg/NEWS.md
+++ b/r-pkg/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+# jgd 0.2.1
+
+No user-facing changes.
+
+## Internals
+
+- Fixed a CRAN (MKL) check error caused by a race condition in the mock
+  server tests. (#76)
+
 # jgd 0.2.0
 
 No user-facing changes.
diff --git a/r-pkg/cran-comments.md b/r-pkg/cran-comments.md
index 1b0a428..4547e78 100644
--- a/r-pkg/cran-comments.md
+++ b/r-pkg/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,17 +1,8 @@
 ## Submission notes
 
-This is a minor release (0.1.1 -> 0.2.0) that updates package metadata
-only; there are no code or user-facing API changes.
-
-- The project repository has moved from `grantmcdermott/jgd` to the
-  `REditorSupport` GitHub organization, which also maintains the VS Code R
-  extension that now ships native `jgd` support. The `URL` and `BugReports`
-  fields, and the repository links in the documentation, have been updated
-  to point to the new canonical location
-  (<https://github.com/REditorSupport/jgd>). The maintainer is unchanged.
-- Although GitHub currently redirects the old URLs, we would prefer the CRAN
-  metadata to reference the canonical repository rather than rely on
-  redirects indefinitely.
+This is a patch release (0.2.0 -> 0.2.1) that fixes the MKL check error
+reported by CRAN, caused by a race condition in our mock server tests.
+There are no user-facing changes.
 
 ## Test environments