diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 98316ccfd13a0286857a3ce70b87bc08517f8cb6..d79d3e82545358eb4f0d2d60205fabcd8eb6014a 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -9,11 +9,12 @@
 ^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
 ^.*\.Rproj$         # Automatically added by RStudio,
 ^\.Rproj\.user$     # used for temporary files. 
 ^cran-comments\.md$ # Comments for CRAN submission
+^CONTRIBUTING\.md$
 #^NEWS\.md$          # A news file written in Markdown
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 35bb1b9f57c6d28367f2e1ad3933cb76a66c3c9b..83303e670f70813e68b96ab62cff23e1b509bf75 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: startR
 Title: Automatically Retrieve Multidimensional Distributed Data Sets
-Version: 2.4.0
+Version: 2.5.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Nicolau", "Manubens", , "nicolau.manubens@bsc.es", role = c("aut")),
     person("An-Chi", "Ho", , "an.ho@bsc.es", role = c("aut"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4182-5258")), 
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ Imports:
     s2dv,
     ClimProjDiags,
     PCICt,
+    stringr,
     methods
 Suggests:
     stats,
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index c6bca724ce7efa965d4ca5f203d9fceb2228300a..a0578085731917b06b9327dbf575eca03c9a3fa5 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import(easyNCDF)
 import(future)
 import(multiApply)
 import(parallel)
+import(stringr)
 importFrom(ClimProjDiags,Subset)
 importFrom(methods,is)
 importFrom(s2dv,CDORemap)
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index ad8b0957497246722f2ac438f6720c4b18267ead..674a9365ec00b31c17b02851f7b5835c4cb0aa48 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+# startR v2.5.0 (Release date: 2025-04-23)
+- Compute(): New `special_setup = 'nord4'`; update outdated examples to run on Nord4
+- Compute(): Add support for conda environments
+-Compute(): Meaningful error message when trying to chunk along 'dat'
+- Start(): Improve error message about dimensions not found in files
+- Bugfix: Start() sometimes returns different latitudes for different variables
+- Bugfix inByChunks(): Make 'autosubmit expid' command consistent with 'autosubmit create' and 'autosubmit run'
+-Documentation: Correct Use Case 1.3: update file paths and Compute() instructions
+- Documentation:Correct Use Cases 1.13 and 2.6: fix error in generation of sdate and time arrays
+- Documentation: Update practical guide and use case examples to run on Nord4
+-Add CONTRIBUTING.Md file
+
+
 # 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"
diff --git a/R/ByChunks_autosubmit.R b/R/ByChunks_autosubmit.R
index bf63878d861ab1c77f9f1f16073be9052d83cb34..10cb89994481bc075dd44adbe310e911ef6f9e9e 100644
--- a/R/ByChunks_autosubmit.R
+++ b/R/ByChunks_autosubmit.R
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@
 #' #ByChunks_autosubmit(step, data)
 #'
 #'@import multiApply
+#'@import stringr
 #'@importFrom methods is
 #'@noRd
 ByChunks_autosubmit <- function(step_fun, cube_headers, ..., chunks = 'auto',