diff --git a/.zenodo.json b/.zenodo.json
index 4a04cd487..3701dcbaa 100644
--- a/.zenodo.json
+++ b/.zenodo.json
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@
       "resource_type": "software"
     }
   ],
-  "version": "0.9.25",
+  "version": "0.9.25.9000-6",
   "upload_type": "software",
   "keywords": ["Luminescence", "Luminescence dating", "Chronology", "Age models"],
-  "publication_date": "2024-09-12",
+  "publication_date": "2024-09-20",
   "creators": [
     {
       "orcid": "0000-0002-0734-2199",
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 388a3f888..e45c3a8ec 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Package: Luminescence
 Type: Package
 Title: Comprehensive Luminescence Dating Data Analysis
-Version: 0.9.25.9000-3
-Date: 2024-09-15
+Version: 0.9.25.9000-6
+Date: 2024-09-20
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Sebastian", "Kreutzer", role = c("aut", "trl", "cre", "dtc"), email = "maintainer_luminescence@r-luminescence.org", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-0734-2199")),
     person("Christoph", "Burow", role = c("aut", "trl", "dtc"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-5023-4046")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index da963326a..fc0ddc490 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -5,10 +5,16 @@
 
 <!-- NEWS.md was auto-generated by NEWS.Rmd. Please DO NOT edit by hand!-->
 
-# Changes in version 0.9.25.9000-8 (2024-09-18)
+# Changes in version 0.9.25.9000-6 (2024-09-20)
 
 ## New functions
 
+## Removed functions
+
+- Function `calc_Kars2008()` (deprecated since version 0.8.1) is now
+  officially defunct, `calc_Huntley2006()` should be used instead (#252,
+  fixed in \#257).
+
 ## Bugfixes
 
 ### `analyse_pIRIRSequence()`
@@ -72,6 +78,6 @@
 
 - Two new internal functions `.throw_warning()` and `.throw_error()`
   sometimes flushed the terminal with messages if call (internally) in
-  particular circumstances. Now the functions make only two attempts to
-  get the name of their called and then return an `unknown()` as
-  function name.
+  particular circumstances. Now we maintain a stack of function names,
+  so that at any time we can report correctly the name of the function
+  where an error or a warning is thrown (#254, fixed in \#256).