diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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 Package: RKorAPClient
 Type: Package
 Title: 'KorAP' Web Service Client Package
-Version: 1.0.0.9000
+Version: 1.1.0
 Authors@R:
     c(person(given = "Marc",
              family = "Kupietz",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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-# Unpublished 1.0.0.9000
+# RKorAPClient 1.1.0
 
+- improved documentation, which should be more use case oriented now
 - fixed bug with fetching result pages with an offset >= 10,000 (=1e+05 ...) [issue #25](https://github.com/KorAP/RKorAPClient/issues)
 - timed out corpus queries are no longer cached (see [issue #7](https://github.com/KorAP/RKorAPClient/issues/7))
+- improved stability of `ci` function
 - improved error handling
 - improved logging
 - added ETAs to logging in verboose mode
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
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 ## Notes
 
+* bug fixes
+* overhauled, less class centric documentation
+* improved test coverage
+
+```
+0 errors ✔ | 0 warnings ✔ | 0 notes ✔
+
+R CMD check succeeded
+```
+
+## Test environments
+
+* local Fedora 42 with R version 4.5.1
+* github workflow on Windows with R 4.5.1
+* github workflow on macOS 14.7.6 with R 4.5.1 for macOS (ARM64)
+* github workflow on Ubuntu with R 4.6.0
+* github workflow on Ubuntu with R 4.5.1
+* github workflow on Ubuntu with R 4.4.3
+* win-builder workflow using R Under development (unstable) (2025-02-18 r87748 ucrt)
+
+## Notes on 1.0.0
+
 * switched to httr2 resulting in simplified authorization
 * minimum R version bumped to 4.1.0
 * changes made it time for v1.0.0