diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 20529dfa2..6e5c3e989 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: broom
 Title: Convert Statistical Objects into Tidy Tibbles
-Version: 0.7.12.9000
+Version: 0.8.0
 Authors@R:
     c(person(given = "David",
              family = "Robinson",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 59ccbdd09..e4a7b8ce9 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
-# broom 0.7.12.9000
+# broom 0.8.0
 
-To be released as broom 0.8.0.
+This update makes significant improvements to documentation, fixes a number of bugs, and brings the development flow of the package up to date with other packages in the tidymodels.
 
-While broom 0.8.0 does not introduce much in terms of new functionality or breaking changes, this update makes significant improvements to documentation and usability of the package and marks a new stage in the package's lifecycle.
+In the big picture, this release:
 
-* Many improvements to documentation: 
+* Makes many improvements to documentation: 
      - All tidiers now have example code demonstrating usage in their documentation. Tidiers for base packages as well as selected others also include sample code for visualization of results with ggplot2.
      - Code examples in the documentation largely now follow consistent style---these changes were made largely to reflect the tidyverse style guide, addressing spacing, object naming, and commenting, among other things.
      - Examples previously marked with `\dontrun` or `\donttest` have been workshopped to run reliably.
-* Clarify errors and warnings for deprecated and un-maintained tidiers.
-* Ensure that tidiers are placed in files named according to the model-supplying package rather than the model object class for easier navigability of the source code.
+* Clarifies errors and warnings for deprecated and un-maintained tidiers.
+* Ensures that tidiers are placed in files named according to the model-supplying package rather than the model object class for easier navigability of the source code.
 
 ### Bug fixes and other improvements
 
diff --git a/R/joinerml-tidiers.R b/R/joinerml-tidiers.R
index 2621bcc9c..2a80d1be4 100644
--- a/R/joinerml-tidiers.R
+++ b/R/joinerml-tidiers.R
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
 #'
 #' @examples
 #' 
+#' # broom only skips running these examples because the example models take a
+#' # while to generate—they should run just fine, though!
+#' \dontrun{
+#' 
 #' # feel free to ignore the following line—it allows {broom} to supply 
 #' # examples without requiring the model-supplying package to be installed.
 #' if (requireNamespace("joineRML", quietly = TRUE)) {
@@ -66,6 +70,8 @@
 #' # extract model statistics
 #' glance(fit)
 #' }
+#' 
+#' }
 #'
 #' @export
 #' @aliases mjoint_tidiers joinerml_tidiers
diff --git a/R/utilities.R b/R/utilities.R
index 3c1262516..9db57a8ec 100644
--- a/R/utilities.R
+++ b/R/utilities.R
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ augment_columns <- function(x, data, newdata = NULL, type, type.predict = type,
 
     original <- data
 
-    if (class(na_action) == "exclude") {
+    if (inherits(na_action, "exclude")) {
       # check if values are missing
       if (length(stats::residuals(x)) > nrow(data)) {
         warning(
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ augment_columns <- function(x, data, newdata = NULL, type, type.predict = type,
     # no NAs were left out; we can simply recombine
     original <- as_augment_tibble(original)
     return(as_tibble(cbind(original, ret)))
-  } else if (class(na_action) == "omit") {
+  } else if (inherits(na_action, "omit")) {
     # if the option is "omit", drop those rows from the data
     original <- as_augment_tibble(original)
     original <- original[-na_action, ]
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index 871a5aab1..30731e439 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# broom 0.7.12.9000
+# broom 0.8.0
 
 ## R CMD check results
 
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
 # Reverse dependencies
 
-We checked 196 reverse dependencies (179 from CRAN + 17 from BioConductor), 
+We checked 192 reverse dependencies (191 from CRAN + 1 from Bioconductor), 
 comparing R CMD check results across CRAN and dev versions of this package.
-We saw no new ERRORs, WARNINGs, or NOTEs.
+
+ * We saw 0 new problems
+ * We failed to check 0 packages
diff --git a/man/augment.mjoint.Rd b/man/augment.mjoint.Rd
index 329d59d8f..767fc75d0 100644
--- a/man/augment.mjoint.Rd
+++ b/man/augment.mjoint.Rd
@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ for the fixed and random effects of the longitudinal submodel.
 }
 \examples{
 
+# broom only skips running these examples because the example models take a
+# while to generate—they should run just fine, though!
+\dontrun{
+
 # feel free to ignore the following line—it allows {broom} to supply 
 # examples without requiring the model-supplying package to be installed.
 if (requireNamespace("joineRML", quietly = TRUE)) {
@@ -143,3 +147,5 @@ glance(fit)
 }
 
 }
+
+}
diff --git a/man/glance.mjoint.Rd b/man/glance.mjoint.Rd
index 0e810c692..60a84cea3 100644
--- a/man/glance.mjoint.Rd
+++ b/man/glance.mjoint.Rd
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ of the appropriate type.
 }
 \examples{
 
+# broom only skips running these examples because the example models take a
+# while to generate—they should run just fine, though!
+\dontrun{
+
 # feel free to ignore the following line—it allows {broom} to supply 
 # examples without requiring the model-supplying package to be installed.
 if (requireNamespace("joineRML", quietly = TRUE)) {
@@ -92,6 +96,8 @@ hvd2 <- augment(fit)
 glance(fit)
 }
 
+}
+
 }
 \seealso{
 \code{\link[=glance]{glance()}}, \code{\link[joineRML:mjoint]{joineRML::mjoint()}}
diff --git a/man/tidy.mjoint.Rd b/man/tidy.mjoint.Rd
index 7e20ae9ed..5db807d6b 100644
--- a/man/tidy.mjoint.Rd
+++ b/man/tidy.mjoint.Rd
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ specify which components to return.
 }
 \examples{
 
+# broom only skips running these examples because the example models take a
+# while to generate—they should run just fine, though!
+\dontrun{
+
 # feel free to ignore the following line—it allows {broom} to supply 
 # examples without requiring the model-supplying package to be installed.
 if (requireNamespace("joineRML", quietly = TRUE)) {
@@ -105,6 +109,8 @@ hvd2 <- augment(fit)
 glance(fit)
 }
 
+}
+
 }
 \seealso{
 \code{\link[=tidy]{tidy()}}, \code{\link[joineRML:mjoint]{joineRML::mjoint()}}, \code{\link[joineRML:bootSE]{joineRML::bootSE()}}