diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 342923a..bc0d06d 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@
 ^README_files/
 ^README_files/.*
 ^README-.*
+^cran-comments\.md$
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 53be6e7..050a876 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Package: cdcfluview
 Type: Package
 Title: Retrieve U.S. Flu Season Data from the CDC FluView Portal
 Version: 0.5.1
-Date: 2016-12-05
+Date: 2016-12-06
 Author: Bob Rudis (bob@rud.is)
 Maintainer: Bob Rudis <bob@rud.is>
 Encoding: UTF-8
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Imports:
     utils,
     purrr,
     readr,
+    jsonlite,
     V8
 Depends:
     R (>= 3.2.0)
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index c9b1a8d..8ae1495 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import(dplyr)
 import(httr)
 import(utils)
 import(xml2)
+importFrom(jsonlite,fromJSON)
 importFrom(purrr,discard)
 importFrom(purrr,keep)
 importFrom(purrr,map)
@@ -16,3 +17,4 @@ importFrom(purrr,map_chr)
 importFrom(purrr,map_df)
 importFrom(purrr,map_lgl)
 importFrom(readr,read_csv)
+importFrom(readr,type_convert)
diff --git a/R/cdcfluview-package.R b/R/cdcfluview-package.R
index 832f2ce..9506b56 100644
--- a/R/cdcfluview-package.R
+++ b/R/cdcfluview-package.R
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
 #' @name cdcfluview
 #' @docType package
 #' @author Bob Rudis (bob@@rud.is)
-#' @import httr xml2 dplyr utils
+#' @import httr xml2 dplyr utils V8
 #' @importFrom purrr map map_df map_chr map_lgl discard keep
-#' @importFrom readr read_csv
-#' @import V8
+#' @importFrom readr read_csv type_convert
+#' @importFrom jsonlite fromJSON
 NULL
diff --git a/R/datasets.r b/R/datasets.r
index de3505d..9e73510 100644
--- a/R/datasets.r
+++ b/R/datasets.r
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 #' @keywords datasets
 #' @name hhs_regions
 #'
-#' @references \url{https://www.hhs.gov/iea/regional/}
+#' @references \url{https://www.hhs.gov/about/agencies/iea/regional-offices/index.html}
 #' @usage data(hhs_regions)
 #' @note Last updated 2015-08-09.
 #' @format A data frame with 59 rows and 4 variables
diff --git a/R/get_state_data.r b/R/get_state_data.r
index d3eaa42..35db31a 100644
--- a/R/get_state_data.r
+++ b/R/get_state_data.r
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ get_state_data <- function(years=as.numeric(format(Sys.Date(), "%Y"))) {
 
   res <- httr::content(tmp, as="parsed")
 
-  ctx <- v8()
-  ctx$eval(JS(sprintf("var dat=%s;", res)))
+  ctx <- V8::v8()
+  ctx$eval(V8::JS(sprintf("var dat=%s;", res)))
   res <- ctx$get("dat", flatten=FALSE)
   out <- suppressMessages(readr::type_convert(res$datadownload))
 
diff --git a/R/zzz.r b/R/zzz.r
index c53ae57..2dc758c 100644
--- a/R/zzz.r
+++ b/R/zzz.r
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 
   if (!interactive()) return()
 
-  packageStartupMessage(paste0("cdcfluview is under *active* development. ",
-                               "There are *breaking changes*. ",
-                               "See https://github.com/hrbrmstr/cdcfluview for info/news."))
+  # packageStartupMessage(paste0("cdcfluview is under *active* development. ",
+  #                              "There are *breaking changes*. ",
+  #                              "See https://github.com/hrbrmstr/cdcfluview for info/news."))
 
 }
 
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..587fbab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+## Test environments
+* local OS X install, R 3.3.2 & R-devel
+* ubuntu 12.04 (on travis-ci), R 3.3.2, R-oldrel and R-devel
+* win-builder (devel and release)
+
+## R CMD check results
+
+0 errors | 0 warnings | 0 notes
+
+---
+
+This is a bug-fix release.
+
+The CDC changed over to using https URLs which broke the core function.
+
+Their state API also changed from returning a CSV file to a JSON direct response.
+
+Tests have been added as well.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/man/hhs_regions.Rd b/man/hhs_regions.Rd
index ee31371..49d1c90 100644
--- a/man/hhs_regions.Rd
+++ b/man/hhs_regions.Rd
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ This dataset contains the names, numbers, regional offices for-,
 Last updated 2015-08-09.
 }
 \references{
-\url{https://www.hhs.gov/iea/regional/}
+\url{https://www.hhs.gov/about/agencies/iea/regional-offices/index.html}
 }
 \keyword{datasets}