diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
-# xml2 (development version)
+# xml2 1.2.3
 
 * Fix potential dangling pointer with internal `asXmlChar()` function (@michaelquinn32, #287).
 
-* `xml_add_child()` can now create nodes with a `par` attribute. These previously errored due to partial name matching of the `parent` function in the internal `create_node()` function. (@jennybc, #285)
+* `as_xml_document()` now handles cases with text nodes trailing normal nodes (#274).
 
-* `libxml2_version()` now returns a semantic version rather than alphanumeric
-  version, so "2.9.10" > "2.9.9" (#277)
+* `xml_add_child()` can now create nodes with a `par` attribute. These previously errored due to partial name matching of the `parent` function in the internal `create_node()` function. (@jennybc, #285)
 
-* `as_xml_document()` now handles cases with text nodes trailing normal nodes (#274).
+* `libxml2_version()` now returns a semantic version rather than alphanumeric version, so "2.9.10" > "2.9.9" (#277)
 
 # xml2 1.2.2
 
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
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--- a/cran-comments.md
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@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 ## Release summary
 
-This is a path release fixing a minor issue in the previous release
+This is a patch release fixing CRAN failures
 
 ## Test environments
 
-* local OS X install, R 3.6.1.
-* Ubuntu 12.04 (on travis-ci), R-oldrel, R-release, R-devel
-* Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64), R 3.6.1
+* local macOS install, R 3.6.2.
+* Ubuntu 14.04 (on travis-ci), R-oldrel, R-release, R-devel
+* Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64), R 3.6.2
 * Rhub
 
 ## R CMD check results
 There were no ERRORs or WARNINGs.
 
-There were 2 NOTEs:
+There were 1 NOTEs:
 
 * checking installed package size ... NOTE
   installed size is  6.7Mb
@@ -24,6 +24,6 @@ There were 2 NOTEs:
 
 
 ## Downstream dependencies
-I ran `R CMD check` on all 305 reverse dependencies (https://github.com/r-lib/xml2/tree/master/revdep#readme).
+I ran `R CMD check` on all reverse dependencies (https://github.com/r-lib/xml2/tree/master/revdep#readme).
 
 There were no breaking changes with this release.