diff --git a/news.html b/news.html
index a21fa2179..d46d8835d 100644
--- a/news.html
+++ b/news.html
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@
 <h2 id="section">2026-01-18</h2>
 </div>
 <p>The <strong>IOCCC29</strong> remains open to people who wish to <a href="next/register.html">register for the IOCCC</a>
-and then <a href="next/submit.html">upload submissions</a> until <code>2026-03-13 17:19:23.293137 UTC</code>:</p>
+and then <a href="next/submit.html">upload submissions</a> until <code>2026-03-13 17:19:23.293137 UTC</code>.</p>
 <p>The servers, services, and software used to build, manage, and maintain
 this site as well as to run the IOCCC itself are due, in part, to the
 support from:</p>
diff --git a/news.md b/news.md
index 960ace07e..7b7d0f9ff 100644
--- a/news.md
+++ b/news.md
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 </div>
 
 The **IOCCC29** remains open to people who wish to [register for the IOCCC](next/register.html)
-and then [upload submissions](next/submit.html) until `2026-03-13 17:19:23.293137 UTC`:
+and then [upload submissions](next/submit.html) until `2026-03-13 17:19:23.293137 UTC`.
 
 The servers, services, and software used to build, manage, and maintain
 this site as well as to run the IOCCC itself are due, in part, to the
diff --git a/sitemap.xml b/sitemap.xml
index c1acaf5b8..c10440d79 100644
--- a/sitemap.xml
+++ b/sitemap.xml
@@ -16818,11 +16818,11 @@
 </url>
 <url>
     <loc>https://www.ioccc.org/news.html</loc>
-    <lastmod>2026-01-19T01:55:01+00:00</lastmod>
+    <lastmod>2026-01-19T02:03:51+00:00</lastmod>
 </url>
 <url>
     <loc>https://www.ioccc.org/news.md</loc>
-    <lastmod>2026-01-19T01:51:40+00:00</lastmod>
+    <lastmod>2026-01-19T02:03:24+00:00</lastmod>
 </url>
 <url>
     <loc>https://www.ioccc.org/next/guidelines.html</loc>
@@ -16938,11 +16938,11 @@
 </url>
 <url>
     <loc>https://www.ioccc.org/status.html</loc>
-    <lastmod>2026-01-19T01:55:21+00:00</lastmod>
+    <lastmod>2026-01-19T02:03:58+00:00</lastmod>
 </url>
 <url>
     <loc>https://www.ioccc.org/status.json</loc>
-    <lastmod>2026-01-19T01:55:20+00:00</lastmod>
+    <lastmod>2026-01-19T02:03:57+00:00</lastmod>
 </url>
 <url>
     <loc>https://www.ioccc.org/status.md</loc>
diff --git a/status.html b/status.html
index 2f5f06dcd..042c35b88 100644
--- a/status.html
+++ b/status.html
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ for any changes that may have been recently made before submitting to the IOCCC.
         &quot;no_comment&quot; : &quot;mandatory comment: because comments were removed from the original JSON spec&quot;,
         &quot;IOCCC_status_version&quot; : &quot;1.0 2024-03-09&quot;,
         &quot;contest_status&quot; : &quot;open&quot;,
-        &quot;news_update&quot; : &quot;2026-01-19T01:51:40+00:00&quot;,
+        &quot;news_update&quot; : &quot;2026-01-19T02:03:24+00:00&quot;,
         &quot;status_update&quot; : &quot;2025-12-15T20:00:04+00:00&quot;
     }</code></pre>
 
diff --git a/status.json b/status.json
index 736bdd9c5..781000a1e 100644
--- a/status.json
+++ b/status.json
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
     "no_comment" : "mandatory comment: because comments were removed from the original JSON spec",
     "IOCCC_status_version" : "1.0 2024-03-09",
     "contest_status" : "open",
-    "news_update" : "2026-01-19T01:51:40+00:00",
+    "news_update" : "2026-01-19T02:03:24+00:00",
     "status_update" : "2025-12-15T20:00:04+00:00"
 }