diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 39771b3df13ec8782f7cfd434821880d1c37ec1a..aa7059a3b2102a246821ef37d6ddd1d831deb5f0 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 ^inst/doc$
 ^\.gitlab-ci\.yml$
 ## unit tests should be ignored when building the package for CRAN
-# ^tests$
+^tests$
 ^inst/PlotProfiling\.R$
 ^.gitlab$
 # Suggested by http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/package.html
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 88bfb6294274990dbb2eec2fbc5b9ad693f13829..35bb1b9f57c6d28367f2e1ad3933cb76a66c3c9b 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 Package: startR
 Title: Automatically Retrieve Multidimensional Distributed Data Sets
-Version: 2.3.1
+Version: 2.4.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Nicolau", "Manubens", , "nicolau.manubens@bsc.es", role = c("aut")),
-    person("An-Chi", "Ho", , "an.ho@bsc.es", role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4182-5258")), 
+    person("An-Chi", "Ho", , "an.ho@bsc.es", role = c("aut"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4182-5258")), 
     person("Nuria", "Perez-Zanon", , "nuria.perez@bsc.es", role = c("aut"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-8568-3071")),
     person("Eva", "Rifa", , "eva.rifarovira@bsc.es", role = "ctb"),
-    person("Victoria", "Agudetse", , "victoria.agudetse@bsc.es", role = "ctb"),
+    person("Victoria", "Agudetse", , "victoria.agudetse@bsc.es", role = c("cre", "ctb")),
     person("Bruno", "de Paula Kinoshita", , "bruno.depaulakinoshita@bsc.es", role = "ctb"),
     person("Javier", "Vegas", , "javier.vegas@bsc.es", role = c("ctb")),
     person("Pierre-Antoine", "Bretonniere", , "pierre-antoine.bretonniere@bsc.es", role = c("ctb")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index c19d7a3389ad581d2f70855758fa7417908d21bc..ad8b0957497246722f2ac438f6720c4b18267ead 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+# startR v2.4.0 (Release date: 2024-09-10)
+- Allow chunking along inner dimensions that go across file dimensions
+- Allow more than one file dimension to be specified in "metadata_dims"
+- Add check and warning for when special wildcard "$var$" is missing in the path
+- Bugfix: Start() retrieve correct time steps when time is across file dimension and the time steps of the first files are skipped
+- Bugfix: Generate correct file paths when a file dimension has multiple depending dimensions
+
 # startR v2.3.1 (Release date: 2023-12-22)
 - Use Autosubmit as workflow manager on hub 
 - New feature: Collect result by Collect() on HPCs