diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 9400bd0..5c33f8f 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: rdwd
 Title: Select and Download Climate Data from 'DWD' (German Weather Service)
-Version: 1.1.36
+Version: 1.2.0
 Date: 2019-10-27
 Depends: R(>= 2.10)
 SystemRequirements: Pandoc (>= 1.12.3), pandoc-citeproc
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e4d95f3..b0f71ca 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -15,6 +15,36 @@ Any feedback is welcome, per email or on github.com/brry/rdwd
 
 rdwd Version history
 
+-----------------------------
+-----------------------------
+
+Version 1.2.0 (2019-10-26)
+Highlights:
+- Vignettes moved to https://bookdown.org/brry/rdwd with nice structure
+- improved reading of gridded data, documented in vignette chapter "Raster data"
+- readRadarFile expanded + moved to own package (dwdradar) with proper tests and better warnings
+- Hexsticker created
+
+Important changes:
+- readDWD.binary: untarring improved
+- projectRasterDWD: default extents + projs added for seasonal + nc
+- source code directory structure updated
+- quiet argument added to many functions
+- readDWD: order and documentation of method selection improved
+- metaIndex + fileIndex: date columns are now of class Date
+- dataDWD: force can now be number of hours after which to re-download
+- various minor fixes, see https://github.com/brry/rdwd/commits
+
+New functions + datasets:
+- readDWD.radar + readDWD.nc + readDWD.stand
+- checkSuggestedPackages
+- EUR + addBorders
+- formatIndex
+- runLocalTests
+- updateIndexes (not exported)
+
+
+
 -----------------------------
 -----------------------------
 
diff --git a/R/rdwd-package.R b/R/rdwd-package.R
index fa7231b..ed0ec87 100644
--- a/R/rdwd-package.R
+++ b/R/rdwd-package.R
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ gridbase <- "ftp://opendata.dwd.de/climate_environment/CDC/grids_germany"
 
 release_questions <- function() {
   c(
-    "Have you run updateIndexes()?"
+    "Have you run updateIndexes() and runLocalTests()?"
   )
 }
 
diff --git a/R/readDWD.R b/R/readDWD.R
index 35c3971..cd64953 100644
--- a/R/readDWD.R
+++ b/R/readDWD.R
@@ -883,7 +883,6 @@ return(invisible(rf))
 #' @title read dwd gridded radolan asc data
 #' @description read grid-interpolated radolan asc data. 
 #' Intended to be called via \code{\link{readDWD}}.\cr
-#' See \url{ftp://ftp-cdc.dwd.de/pub/CDC/grids_germany/hourly/radolan/README.txt}
 #' All layers (following \code{selection} if given) in all .tar.gz files are 
 #' combined into a raster stack with \code{raster::\link[raster]{stack}}.\cr
 #' To project the data, use \code{\link{projectRasterDWD}}
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f15f285..accbd25 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Since May 2019, `rdwd` also supports reading the Radolan (binary) raster data at
 
 It has been presented at [FOSDEM 2017](https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/geo_weather/)
 and [UseR!2017](https://user2017.sched.com/event/Axr3/rdwd-manage-german-weather-observations) in Brussels,
-featured in Rstudios [data package list](https://www.rstudio.com/rviews/2017/02/17/january-new-data-packages/) 
+featured in Rstudios [data package list](https://rviews.rstudio.com/2017/02/17/january-new-data-packages) 
 and written about in [OSOR](https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/study-german-weather-data-made-easy-rdwd).
 
 
diff --git a/man/readDWD.asc.Rd b/man/readDWD.asc.Rd
index 9731c3d..8833922 100644
--- a/man/readDWD.asc.Rd
+++ b/man/readDWD.asc.Rd
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ data.frame
 \description{
 read grid-interpolated radolan asc data. 
 Intended to be called via \code{\link{readDWD}}.\cr
-See \url{ftp://ftp-cdc.dwd.de/pub/CDC/grids_germany/hourly/radolan/README.txt}
 All layers (following \code{selection} if given) in all .tar.gz files are 
 combined into a raster stack with \code{raster::\link[raster]{stack}}.\cr
 To project the data, use \code{\link{projectRasterDWD}}