diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 56586f83..704418bb 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: nflfastR
 Title: Functions to Efficiently Access NFL Play by Play Data
-Version: 4.6.0.9000
+Version: 4.6.1
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Sebastian",
              family = "Carl",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 31bf104d..af8c7d02 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
-# nflfastR (development version)
+# nflfastR 4.6.1
 
 - The function `calculate_series_conversion_rates()` now correctly aggregates season level conversion rates. Performance has also been improved. (#440)
+- Adjusted test behavior at CRAN's request. 
+
+Thank you to
+[@andrewtek](https://github.com/andrewtek), [@gregalvi86](https://github.com/gregalvi86), [@Ic4ru5Wing](https://github.com/Ic4ru5Wing), [@JoeMarino2021](https://github.com/JoeMarino2021), [@jreddy1990](https://github.com/jreddy1990), [@marvin3FF](https://github.com/marvin3FF), [@mrcaseb](https://github.com/mrcaseb), [@RicShern](https://github.com/RicShern), [@SPNE](https://github.com/SPNE), and [@trivialfis](https://github.com/trivialfis) for their questions, feedback, and contributions towards this release.
 
 # nflfastR 4.6.0
 
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index 13c60f76..3f5bf835 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ## Release summary
 
 This is a minor release that 
-* fixes bugs
+* adjusts the setup process of unit tests per request
 
 ## R CMD check results
 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/setup.R b/tests/testthat/setup.R
deleted file mode 100644
index 3da41907..00000000
--- a/tests/testthat/setup.R
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-# CRAN incoming checks can fail if tests use more than 2 cores.
-# We can run in this problem by using data.table https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/5658
-# R CMD Check throws the NOTE because CRAN sets
-# _R_CHECK_TEST_TIMING_CPU_TO_ELAPSED_THRESHOLD_ and/or
-# _R_CHECK_EXAMPLE_TIMING_CPU_TO_ELAPSED_THRESHOLD_to "2.5"
-# (EDIT: They probably use different ones in R DEVEL)
-# which means "more than two cores are running".
-# We check for these environment variables and if we find them
-# we set data.table to two threads.
-cpu_check <- as.numeric(
-  c(
-    Sys.getenv("_R_CHECK_EXAMPLE_TIMING_CPU_TO_ELAPSED_THRESHOLD_", unset = 0),
-    Sys.getenv("_R_CHECK_TEST_TIMING_CPU_TO_ELAPSED_THRESHOLD_", unset = 0)
-  )
-)
-
-if (any(is.na(cpu_check)) || any(cpu_check[!is.na(cpu_check)] != 0)) {
-  cores <- min(
-    floor(as.integer(Sys.getenv("_R_CHECK_EXAMPLE_TIMING_CPU_TO_ELAPSED_THRESHOLD_"))),
-    floor(as.integer(Sys.getenv("_R_CHECK_TEST_TIMING_CPU_TO_ELAPSED_THRESHOLD_"))),
-    2L,
-    na.rm = TRUE
-  )
-  Sys.setenv("OMP_THREAD_LIMIT" = cores)
-  data.table::setDTthreads(cores)
-}