diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-old-tinytest.yaml b/.github/workflows/check-old-tinytest.yaml
index 8aebca4cb..e5ce21e3b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check-old-tinytest.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-old-tinytest.yaml
@@ -49,13 +49,13 @@ jobs:
           # Test all old versions of R >= 3.0, we support them all!
           # For these old versions, dependencies and vignettes will not be checked.
           # For recent R versions, see check-recent.yaml (r-lib and tidyverse support the latest 5 major R releases).
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest, r: '3.6', allowfail: false}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest, r: '3.6', allowfail: true}
           # - {os: windows-latest, r: '3.5', allowfail: true} # always fails, horrible with UTF-8
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest, r: '3.4', allowfail: false}
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest, r: '3.3', allowfail: false}
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest, r: '3.2', allowfail: false}
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest, r: '3.1', allowfail: false}
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest, r: '3.0', allowfail: false}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest, r: '3.4', allowfail: true}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest, r: '3.3', allowfail: true}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest, r: '3.2', allowfail: true}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest, r: '3.1', allowfail: true}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest, r: '3.0', allowfail: true}
 
     env:
       R_REMOTES_NO_ERRORS_FROM_WARNINGS: true
diff --git a/.github/workflows/website.yaml b/.github/workflows/website.yaml
index cee32101e..175e6bb35 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/website.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/website.yaml
@@ -42,16 +42,15 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
 
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           # this is to keep timestamps, the default fetch-depth: 1 gets the timestamps of the moment of cloning
           # we need this for the download page on our website - dates must be of the files, not of the latest git push
           fetch-depth: 0
 
-      - name: Preserve timestamps
-        run: |
-          sudo apt install git-restore-mtime
-          git restore-mtime
+      - name: restore timestamps
+        uses: chetan/git-restore-mtime-action@v2
 
       - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v2
 
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index f1dd9fb3a..e9f1b79ef 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: AMR
-Version: 3.0.0.9019
-Date: 2025-09-01
+Version: 3.0.0.9021
+Date: 2025-09-03
 Title: Antimicrobial Resistance Data Analysis
 Description: Functions to simplify and standardise antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
   data analysis and to work with microbial and antimicrobial properties by
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 08f744891..c510176f9 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# AMR 3.0.0.9019
+# AMR 3.0.0.9021
 
 This is primarily a bugfix release, though we added one nice feature too.