diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 834c4fa124507946a4eb8131288fe93d2ed7cf00..5b23b455401c260d8450a0920702c162a6fcf585 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
-.git
-.gitignore
-.tar.gz
-.pdf
-./.nc
+.*\.git$
+.*\.gitignore$
+.*\.tar.gz$
+.*\.pdf$
+.*^(?!inst)\.nc$
+.gitlab-ci.yml
+# unit tests should be ignored when building the package for CRAN
+^tests$
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 131fa1b5d97155517a5d1fd5cfa84f6ccb496f1c..26bf454899e6a696149fa0666ef5048ad58b42cf 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: easyNCDF
 Title: Tools to Easily Read/Write NetCDF Files into/from Multidimensional R
     Arrays
-Version: 0.1.1
+Version: 0.1.2
 Authors@R: c(
     person("BSC-CNS", role = c("aut", "cph")),
     person("Nicolau", "Manubens", , "nicolau.manubens@bsc.es", role = c("aut")),
@@ -14,8 +14,10 @@ Depends:
 Imports:
     ncdf4,
     abind
-License: Apache License 2.0
-URL: https://earth.bsc.es/gitlab/es/easyNCDF/-/wikis/home
+License: GPL-3
+URL: https://earth.bsc.es/gitlab/es/easyNCDF
 BugReports: https://earth.bsc.es/gitlab/es/easyNCDF/-/issues
 SystemRequirements: netcdf development libraries
 RoxygenNote: 7.2.0
+Encoding: UTF-8
+Config/testthat/edition: 3
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cecff9bb660d5bb2ff6de9b8be582544dab29668
--- /dev/null
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# easyNCDF 0.1.2 (Release date: 2023-05-31)
+- Remove dependency on ClimProjDiags
+- Fix examples of ArrayToNc()
+- license is changed to GPL-3