diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 9858701..0ca8a8b 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: altdoc
 Title: Package Documentation Websites with 'Quarto', 'Docsify', 'Docute', or 'MkDocs'
-Version: 0.4.0.9000
+Version: 0.5.0
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Etienne",
              family = "Bacher",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 561a6d1..30681e1 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,11 +1,20 @@
 # News
 
-## Development
+## 0.5.0
 
-Breaking changes:
+### Breaking changes
 
 * Do not render README.qmd to markdown automatically. Users should render them manually to make sure that the README on CRAN and Github is in sync with the Altdoc home page.
 
+### Other changes
+
+* `README.qmd` is no longer required to create a `quarto_website`, only 
+  `README.md` (#295).
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+* Fix some failures in CRAN checks (#303).
+
 ## 0.4.0
 
 ### Breaking changes
diff --git a/R/import_misc.R b/R/import_misc.R
index 99bd898..bb42cf9 100644
--- a/R/import_misc.R
+++ b/R/import_misc.R
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 .import_citation <- function(src_dir, tar_dir) {
   src_file <- fs::path_join(c(src_dir, "CITATION.md"))
   tar_file <- fs::path_join(c(tar_dir, "CITATION.md"))
@@ -14,20 +13,25 @@
         {
           name <- .pkg_name(src_dir)
           cite <- utils::citation(name)
-          head <- vapply(cite, function(x) {
-            if (is.null(x$header)) {
-              ""
-            } else {
-              paste0(x$header, "\n\n")
-            }
-          }, character(1))
+          head <- vapply(
+            cite,
+            function(x) {
+              if (is.null(x$header)) {
+                ""
+              } else {
+                paste0(x$header, "\n\n")
+              }
+            },
+            character(1)
+          )
           if (!is.null(attr(cite, "mheader"))) {
             head[1] <- paste0(attr(cite, "mheader"), "\n\n", head[1])
           }
           cite <- paste0(head, format(cite, style = "html"))
           c("# Citation", "", paste(cite, collapse = "\n\n"))
         },
-        error = function(e) NULL)
+        error = function(e) NULL
+      )
     )
     if (!is.null(cite)) {
       writeLines(cite, tar_file)
@@ -35,11 +39,16 @@
   }
 }
 
-
 .import_basic <- function(src_dir, tar_dir, name = "NEWS") {
   src <- c(
-    "NEWS.md", "NEWS.txt", "NEWS", "NEWS.Rd",
-    "inst/NEWS.md", "inst/NEWS.txt", "inst/NEWS", "inst/NEWS.Rd"
+    "NEWS.md",
+    "NEWS.txt",
+    "NEWS",
+    "NEWS.Rd",
+    "inst/NEWS.md",
+    "inst/NEWS.txt",
+    "inst/NEWS",
+    "inst/NEWS.Rd"
   )
   src <- gsub("NEWS", name, src, fixed = TRUE)
   src <- sapply(src, function(x) fs::path_join(c(src_dir, x)))
@@ -48,7 +57,7 @@
   # no news to import
   if (length(src) == 0) {
     return(invisible())
-  # priority hard-coded by the order of the vector above
+    # priority hard-coded by the order of the vector above
   } else {
     src <- src[1]
   }
@@ -65,7 +74,7 @@
       writeLines(gsub("^##", "#", x), tar)
     }
 
-  # all other formats only require a copy
+    # all other formats only require a copy
   } else {
     fs::file_copy(src, tar, overwrite = TRUE)
   }
@@ -78,7 +87,6 @@
   cli::cli_alert_success("{.file {name}} imported.")
 }
 
-
 # Autolink news, PR, and people in NEWS
 .parse_news <- function(path, news_path) {
   if (!fs::file_exists(news_path)) {
@@ -97,22 +105,29 @@
   )
   new_news <- paste(orig_news, collapse = "\n")
   if (length(issues_pr) > 0) {
-    issues_pr_link <- paste0(.gh_url(path), "/issues/", gsub("#", "", issues_pr))
+    issues_pr_link <- paste0(
+      .gh_url(path),
+      "/issues/",
+      gsub("#", "", issues_pr)
+    )
 
     issues_pr_out <- data.frame(
       in_text = issues_pr,
       replacement = paste0("[", issues_pr, "](", issues_pr_link, ")"),
       nchar = nchar(issues_pr)
-    ) |>
-      unique()
+    )
+    issues_pr_out <- unique(issues_pr_out)
 
     # need to go in decreasing order of characters so that we don't insert the
     # link for #78 in "#783" for instance
 
-    issues_pr_out <- issues_pr_out[order(issues_pr_out$nchar, decreasing = TRUE), ]
+    issues_pr_out <- issues_pr_out[
+      order(issues_pr_out$nchar, decreasing = TRUE),
+    ]
 
     for (i in seq_len(nrow(issues_pr_out))) {
-      new_news <- gsub(paste0(issues_pr_out[i, "in_text"], "(?![0-9])"),
+      new_news <- gsub(
+        paste0(issues_pr_out[i, "in_text"], "(?![0-9])"),
         issues_pr_out[i, "replacement"],
         new_news,
         perl = TRUE
@@ -120,11 +135,13 @@
     }
   }
 
-
   ### People
   # regex from https://github.com/r-lib/pkgdown/blob/main/R/repo.R
   people <- unlist(
-    regmatches(orig_news, gregexpr("(\\s|^|\\()@([-\\w]+)", orig_news, perl = TRUE))
+    regmatches(
+      orig_news,
+      gregexpr("(\\s|^|\\()@([-\\w]+)", orig_news, perl = TRUE)
+    )
   )
 
   people <- gsub("^ ", "", people)
@@ -138,8 +155,8 @@
       in_text = people,
       replacement = paste0("[", people, "](", people_link, ")"),
       nchar = nchar(people)
-    ) |>
-      unique()
+    )
+    people_out <- unique(people_out)
 
     people_out <- people_out[order(people_out$nchar, decreasing = TRUE), ]
 
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index 67b551e..e737e45 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -4,5 +4,8 @@
 
 ## Other comments
 
-This is the second submission of altdoc 0.4.0. First submission failed because
-of a dead link in the README, that is now fixed.
+This release fixes the errors in CRAN checks occurring in 0.4.0
+
+This is the second submission of 0.5.0. The first submission had a NOTE due
+to the use of |> without specifying the R dependency version. This is now
+fixed.