diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 7bf9ce3cf..d54b20e28 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: parsnip
 Title: A Common API to Modeling and Analysis Functions
-Version: 1.2.0.9001
+Version: 1.2.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Max", "Kuhn", , "max@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Davis", "Vaughan", , "davis@posit.co", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index cbfea075b..7bf770acf 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
-# parsnip (development version)
+# parsnip 1.2.1
 
 * Added a missing `tidy()` method for survival analysis glmnet models (#1086).
 
+* A few changes were made to achive more speed-ups (#1075) (#1073) (#1072)
+
 # parsnip 1.2.0
 
 ## Bug Fixes
diff --git a/README.Rmd b/README.Rmd
index 1e291126c..c76de2cb0 100644
--- a/README.Rmd
+++ b/README.Rmd
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ A list of all parsnip models across different CRAN packages can be found at http
 
 This project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](https://contributor-covenant.org/version/2/0/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.html). By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.
 
-- For questions and discussions about tidymodels packages, modeling, and machine learning, please [post on RStudio Community](https://community.rstudio.com/new-topic?category_id=15&tags=tidymodels,question).
+- For questions and discussions about tidymodels packages, modeling, and machine learning, please [post on RStudio Community](https://forum.posit.co/new-topic?category_id=15&tags=tidymodels,question).
 
 - If you think you have encountered a bug, please [submit an issue](https://github.com/tidymodels/parsnip/issues).
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1697fb621..e845cf8dd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.
 
 - For questions and discussions about tidymodels packages, modeling, and
   machine learning, please [post on RStudio
-  Community](https://community.rstudio.com/new-topic?category_id=15&tags=tidymodels,question).
+  Community](https://forum.posit.co/new-topic?category_id=15&tags=tidymodels,question).
 
 - If you think you have encountered a bug, please [submit an
   issue](https://github.com/tidymodels/parsnip/issues).
diff --git a/tests/testthat.R b/tests/testthat.R
index 51d6cc618..2a3c3f952 100644
--- a/tests/testthat.R
+++ b/tests/testthat.R
@@ -1,13 +1,4 @@
 library(testthat)
 library(parsnip)
 
-# Added this check on 2023-08-17 because the debian check service was allowing
-# data.tabe to use too many cores. This led to notes of about user time
-# exceeding cpu time. We explained for 4 submissions that this is unrelated to
-# parsnip. Our messages were ignored and the submission was deleted.
-# The underlying issue is shown here:
-# https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/5658
-
-if (!parsnip:::is_cran_check()) {
-  test_check("parsnip")
-}
+test_check("parsnip")