diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 1a523cc..caf7d98 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: resourcecode
 Title: Access to the 'RESOURCECODE' Hindcast Database
-Version: 0.5.4
+Version: 0.5.4.9000
 Authors@R: 
     person("Nicolas", "Raillard", , "nicolas.raillard@ifremer.fr", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-3385-5104"))
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index e280563..9423b99 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# resourcecode (development version)
+
 # resourcecode 0.5.4
 
 - `get_parameters` now correctly handles `Date` format as inputs by spanning on the right period;
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index 0e4afd6..cc3858f 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
-This is a re-submission for Resourcecode 0.5.3.
+This is Resourcecode 0.5.4.
 
-This is only a patch release to update the failure message when remote resource is not available
-and solves the errors on <https://CRAN.R-project.org/web/checks/check_results_resourcecode.html>
-
-The vignette has been refactored to lower its building time, by skipping the download of new data.
+This is only a patch release to update internal variables due to update in the upstream database.
 
 ## R CMD check results
 
diff --git a/devtools_history.R b/devtools_history.R
index 1249c4d..ec9d581 100644
--- a/devtools_history.R
+++ b/devtools_history.R
@@ -138,8 +138,6 @@ usethis::use_version(which = c("patch", "minor", "major", "dev")[1])
 
 usethis::use_release_issue()
 
-devtools::release()
-
 # After the package is accepted:
 usethis::use_github_release()
 usethis::use_dev_version(push = TRUE)