diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index b96121b1..fc7f6eb9 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: mlr3tuning
 Title: Hyperparameter Optimization for 'mlr3'
-Version: 0.19.0.9000
+Version: 0.19.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Marc", "Becker", , "marcbecker@posteo.de", role = c("cre", "aut"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8115-0400")),
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ License: LGPL-3
 URL: https://mlr3tuning.mlr-org.com, https://github.com/mlr-org/mlr3tuning
 BugReports: https://github.com/mlr-org/mlr3tuning/issues
 Depends:
-    mlr3 (>= 0.14.1),
+    mlr3 (>= 0.17.0),
     paradox (>= 0.10.0),
     R (>= 3.1.0)
 Imports:
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Suggests:
     testthat (>= 3.0.0),
     xgboost
 Remotes:
-    mlr-org/mlr3
+    mlr-org/mlr3@release
 Config/testthat/edition: 3
 Config/testthat/parallel: true
 Encoding: UTF-8
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index a2f40a00..ca9f0e10 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-# mlr3tuning (development version)
+# mlr3tuning 0.19.1
 
+* refactor: Speed up the tuning process by minimizing the number of deep clones and parameter checks.
 * fix: Set `store_benchmark_result = TRUE` if `store_models = TRUE` when creating a tuning instance.
 * fix: Passing a terminator in `tune_nested()` did not work.