diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 29c6e1d6..70c4b217 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Description: Time series clustering along with optimized techniques related
     All included distance functions have custom loops optimized for the 
     calculation of cross-distance matrices, including parallelization support.
     Several cluster validity indices are included.
-Version: 5.5.8.9000
+Version: 5.5.9
 Depends:
     R (>= 3.3.0),
     methods,
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Suggests:
     knitr,
     rmarkdown,
     testthat
-Date: 2022-03-15
+Date: 2022-03-16
 Author: Alexis Sarda-Espinosa
 Maintainer: Alexis Sarda <alexis.sarda@gmail.com>
 BugReports: https://github.com/asardaes/dtwclust/issues
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index 55b1c354..bb788054 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 
 ## Update to version 5.5.9
+* Remove instances of deprecated C++ templates as requested.
 
 ## Test environments
 * Local GNU/Linux, R release