diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index f1e8785..f56dd04 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -4,13 +4,14 @@
 ^twdtw_results/
 ^examples/
 ^.travis.yml$
+_config.yml
 
 # Other files
 README.md
 corinho.R
 tardis.f
 tardis.o
-.git
+^\.git/
 .gitignore
 ^README\.Rmd$
 ^figure$
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index f0f6d71..ea16988 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 Package: dtwSat
 Type: Package
-Title: Time-Weighted Dynamic Time Warping for Satellite Image Time Series
-    Analysis
-Version: 0.2.4.9999
-Date: 2017-06-04
-Authors@R: c(person('Victor', 'Maus', role = c('aut', 'cre'), email = 'vwmaus1@gmail.com'), 
-             person('Marius', 'Appel', role = c('ctb')),
-             person('Toni',   'Giorgino', role = c('ctb')))
+Title: Time-Weighted Dynamic Time Warping for Satellite Image Time Series Analysis
+Version: 0.2.4
+Date: 2018-05-24
+Authors@R: c(person('Victor', 'Maus', role = c('aut', 'cre'), email = 'vwmaus1@gmail.com', comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-7385-4723")), 
+  person('Marius', 'Appel', role = c('ctb')),
+  person('Toni',   'Giorgino', role = c('ctb')))
 Description: Provides an implementation of the Time-Weighted Dynamic Time
     Warping (TWDTW) method for land cover mapping using satellite image time series.
     TWDTW is based on the Dynamic Time Warping technique and has achieved high
@@ -51,8 +50,8 @@ Suggests:
 License: GPL (>= 2) | file LICENSE
 URL: https://github.com/vwmaus/dtwSat/
 BugReports: https://github.com/vwmaus/dtwSat/issues
-Author: Victor Maus [aut, cre],
-  Marius Appel [ctb],
+Author: Victor Maus [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7385-4723>), 
+  Marius Appel [ctb], 
   Toni Giorgino [ctb]
 Maintainer: Victor Maus <vwmaus1@gmail.com>
 LazyData: true
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 8f7fbed..f27c705 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# dtwSat v0.2.4.9999
+# dtwSat v0.2.4
 
 * New features 
 
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
   
   Improve memory usage and speed of twdtwClassify 
   
+  Auto recognition of the argument "doy" to avoid naming the argument "doy = doy" 
+  
 * Fixing bugs
   
   Fix bug in twdtwAssess for class twdtwMatches 
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index e74ef0a..2145f83 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
 ## Test environments
-* local Fedora 23 (64-bit), R 3.3.2
+* local Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit), R 3.4.4
 * win-builder R-devel and R-release 
+devtools::check(args = '--as-cran', build_args = '--compact-vignettes=gs+qpdf')
+devtools::build_win(args = '--compact-vignettes=gs+qpdf')
+devtools::submit_cran(args = '--compact-vignettes=gs+qpdf')
+
 
 ## REVIEWS
 
+# v0.2.4
+
 # v0.2.3
 
 * Fix check error