diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 64b1519b..b74e60ed 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ export(read_redcap)
 export(write_redcap_xlsx)
 importFrom(REDCapR,redcap_arm_export)
 importFrom(REDCapR,redcap_event_instruments)
+importFrom(REDCapR,redcap_event_read)
 importFrom(REDCapR,redcap_instruments)
 importFrom(REDCapR,redcap_metadata_read)
 importFrom(REDCapR,redcap_read_oneshot)
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 96ede72c..14c724ee 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 - Added `combine_checkboxes()` analytics function
    - Use `combine_checkboxes()` to consolidate multiple checkbox fields in a REDCap data tibble under a single column
 - Fixed a bug for mixed structure databases resulting in data loss when some fields had dual repeating-separately/repeating-together behavior
+- Various improvements and additions with CRAN release of REDCapR 1.2.0:
+   - `event_name` added as a column to the `redcap_event` column of longitudinal supertibbles
+   - `guess_max` parameter in `read_redcap()` default updated to `Inf` 
 
 # REDCapTidieR 1.1.1
 
diff --git a/R/REDCapTidieR-package.R b/R/REDCapTidieR-package.R
index 978e6ee3..5771fc22 100644
--- a/R/REDCapTidieR-package.R
+++ b/R/REDCapTidieR-package.R
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 #' @importFrom purrr compose map map2 map_int map_lgl pluck pmap_chr some pmap
 #' discard flatten_chr map2_chr reduce
 #' @importFrom REDCapR redcap_arm_export redcap_event_instruments redcap_instruments
-#' redcap_metadata_read redcap_read_oneshot sanitize_token
+#' redcap_metadata_read redcap_read_oneshot sanitize_token redcap_event_read
 #' @importFrom rlang .data !!! abort as_closure caller_arg caller_env catch_cnd
 #' check_installed cnd_muffle current_call current_env enexpr enquo env_poke
 #' eval_tidy get_env global_env is_atomic is_bare_formula is_bare_list quo_name
diff --git a/R/read_redcap.R b/R/read_redcap.R
index a350cd3c..874540ce 100644
--- a/R/read_redcap.R
+++ b/R/read_redcap.R
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ add_event_mapping <- function(supertbl, linked_arms) {
   event_info <- linked_arms %>%
     add_partial_keys(.data$unique_event_name) %>%
     select(
-      redcap_form_name = "form", "redcap_event", "redcap_arm", "arm_name"
+      redcap_form_name = "form", "redcap_event", "event_name", "redcap_arm", "arm_name"
     ) %>%
     nest(redcap_events = !"redcap_form_name")
 
diff --git a/R/utils.R b/R/utils.R
index 32dc3a78..44045c6d 100644
--- a/R/utils.R
+++ b/R/utils.R
@@ -142,7 +142,19 @@ link_arms <- function(redcap_uri,
     call = caller_env()
   )
 
-  left_join(db_event_instruments, arms, by = "arm_num")
+  db_event_labels <- try_redcapr(
+    {
+      redcap_event_read(
+        redcap_uri = redcap_uri,
+        token = token,
+        verbose = !suppress_redcapr_messages
+      )
+    },
+    call = caller_env()
+  )
+
+  left_join(db_event_instruments, arms, by = "arm_num") %>%
+    left_join(db_event_labels, by = c("arm_num", "unique_event_name"))
 }
 
 #' @title
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-utils.R b/tests/testthat/test-utils.R
index 2fe31dbd..299be04e 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-utils.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-utils.R
@@ -219,7 +219,8 @@ test_that("link_arms works", {
   expect_s3_class(out, "tbl")
 
   # output contains expected columns
-  expected_cols <- c("arm_num", "unique_event_name", "form", "arm_name")
+  expected_cols <- c("arm_num", "unique_event_name", "form", "arm_name",
+                     "event_name", "custom_event_label", "event_id")
   expect_setequal(expected_cols, names(out))
 
   # all arms are represented in output (test redcap has 2 arms)