diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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 Package: implyr
 Type: Package
 Title: R Interface for Apache Impala
-Version: 0.2.0.9000
+Version: 0.2.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Ian", "Cook", email = "ian@cloudera.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person(family = "Cloudera", role = c("cph"))
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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@@ -4,3 +4,10 @@
 * Added automated tests (#6)
 * Documented how to use `in_schema()` to specify the database containing the table (#2, #3)
 * Made minor bugfixes and improvements
+
+# implyr 0.2.1
+
+* Updated for compatibility with dbplyr 1.1.0
+* Added and changed some SQL translations
+* Enabled auto-disconnect by default
+* Made minor bugfixes and improvements
diff --git a/README.Rmd b/README.Rmd
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+++ b/README.Rmd
@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@ knitr::opts_chunk$set(
 
 # implyr
 
-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/ianmcook/implyr.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/ianmcook/implyr)
-[![CRAN_Status_Badge](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/implyr)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=implyr)
-
 **implyr** is a SQL backend to [dplyr](https://cran.r-project.org/package=dplyr) for [Apache Impala (incubating)](https://impala.apache.org), the massively parallel processing query engine for Apache Hadoop. Impala enables low-latency SQL queries on large datasets stored in HDFS, Apache HBase, Apache Kudu, and Amazon S3.
 
 implyr is designed to work with any [DBI](https://cran.r-project.org/package=DBI)-compatible interface to Impala. implyr does not provide the underlying connectivity to Impala, nor does it require that you use one particular R package for connectivity to Impala. Currently, two packages that can provide this connectivity are [odbc](https://cran.r-project.org/package=odbc) and [RJDBC](https://cran.r-project.org/package=RJDBC). Future packages may provide other options for connectivity.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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 implyr
 ======
 
-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/ianmcook/implyr.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/ianmcook/implyr) [![CRAN\_Status\_Badge](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/implyr)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=implyr)
-
 **implyr** is a SQL backend to [dplyr](https://cran.r-project.org/package=dplyr) for [Apache Impala (incubating)](https://impala.apache.org), the massively parallel processing query engine for Apache Hadoop. Impala enables low-latency SQL queries on large datasets stored in HDFS, Apache HBase, Apache Kudu, and Amazon S3.
 
 implyr is designed to work with any [DBI](https://cran.r-project.org/package=DBI)-compatible interface to Impala. implyr does not provide the underlying connectivity to Impala, nor does it require that you use one particular R package for connectivity to Impala. Currently, two packages that can provide this connectivity are [odbc](https://cran.r-project.org/package=odbc) and [RJDBC](https://cran.r-project.org/package=RJDBC). Future packages may provide other options for connectivity.