diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 610047e..b564f07 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Package: rucrdtw
 Type: Package
 Title: R Bindings for the UCR Suite
-Version: 0.1.5
-Date: 2023-08-22
+Version: 0.1.6
+Date: 2023-12-11
 Authors@R: c(person("Philipp", "Boersch-Supan", email = "pboesu@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-6723-6833")),
              person("Thanawin", "Rakthanmanon", role = "aut"),
              person("Bilson", "Campana", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index eeed146..bb2f96a 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# rucrdtw 0.1.6
+
+* updated to Rcpp 1.0.11.6 to address -Wformat-security issue
+
 # rucrdtw 0.1.5
 
 * updated documentation to address breaking change in roxygen2
diff --git a/src/RcppExports.cpp b/src/RcppExports.cpp
index f63b8a3..cc5a301 100644
--- a/src/RcppExports.cpp
+++ b/src/RcppExports.cpp
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ RcppExport SEXP _rucrdtw_ucrdtw_ff(SEXP dataSEXP, SEXP querySEXP, SEXP qlengthSE
     if (rcpp_isError_gen) {
         SEXP rcpp_msgSEXP_gen = Rf_asChar(rcpp_result_gen);
         UNPROTECT(1);
-        Rf_error(CHAR(rcpp_msgSEXP_gen));
+        Rf_error("%s", CHAR(rcpp_msgSEXP_gen));
     }
     UNPROTECT(1);
     return rcpp_result_gen;
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ RcppExport SEXP _rucrdtw_ucrdtw_fv(SEXP dataSEXP, SEXP querySEXP, SEXP dtwwindow
     if (rcpp_isError_gen) {
         SEXP rcpp_msgSEXP_gen = Rf_asChar(rcpp_result_gen);
         UNPROTECT(1);
-        Rf_error(CHAR(rcpp_msgSEXP_gen));
+        Rf_error("%s", CHAR(rcpp_msgSEXP_gen));
     }
     UNPROTECT(1);
     return rcpp_result_gen;
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ RcppExport SEXP _rucrdtw_ucrdtw_vv(SEXP dataSEXP, SEXP querySEXP, SEXP dtwwindow
     if (rcpp_isError_gen) {
         SEXP rcpp_msgSEXP_gen = Rf_asChar(rcpp_result_gen);
         UNPROTECT(1);
-        Rf_error(CHAR(rcpp_msgSEXP_gen));
+        Rf_error("%s", CHAR(rcpp_msgSEXP_gen));
     }
     UNPROTECT(1);
     return rcpp_result_gen;
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ RcppExport SEXP _rucrdtw_ucred_ff(SEXP dataSEXP, SEXP querySEXP, SEXP qlengthSEX
     if (rcpp_isError_gen) {
         SEXP rcpp_msgSEXP_gen = Rf_asChar(rcpp_result_gen);
         UNPROTECT(1);
-        Rf_error(CHAR(rcpp_msgSEXP_gen));
+        Rf_error("%s", CHAR(rcpp_msgSEXP_gen));
     }
     UNPROTECT(1);
     return rcpp_result_gen;
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ RcppExport SEXP _rucrdtw_ucred_fv(SEXP dataSEXP, SEXP querySEXP) {
     if (rcpp_isError_gen) {
         SEXP rcpp_msgSEXP_gen = Rf_asChar(rcpp_result_gen);
         UNPROTECT(1);
-        Rf_error(CHAR(rcpp_msgSEXP_gen));
+        Rf_error("%s", CHAR(rcpp_msgSEXP_gen));
     }
     UNPROTECT(1);
     return rcpp_result_gen;
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ RcppExport SEXP _rucrdtw_ucred_vv(SEXP dataSEXP, SEXP querySEXP, SEXP skipSEXP)
     if (rcpp_isError_gen) {
         SEXP rcpp_msgSEXP_gen = Rf_asChar(rcpp_result_gen);
         UNPROTECT(1);
-        Rf_error(CHAR(rcpp_msgSEXP_gen));
+        Rf_error("%s", CHAR(rcpp_msgSEXP_gen));
     }
     UNPROTECT(1);
     return rcpp_result_gen;