diff --git a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
index bf69a50e3..8f8501c67 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
         config:
           - {os: windows-latest, r: 'release', not_cran: false}
           - {os: macOS-latest,   r: 'release', not_cran: false}
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest,  r: 'release', not_cran: true}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,  r: 'release', not_cran: true, _EPLUSR_SKIP_TESTS_TRANSITION_: true, _EPLUSR_SKIP_TESTS_DOWNLOAD_EPW_: true, _EPLUSR_SKIP_TESTS_DOWNLOAD_IDD_: true, _EPLUSR_SKIP_TESTS_BASEMENT_: true}
 
     env:
       GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yml b/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yml
index c8be838cf..6b8ba4d9f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ jobs:
 
     env:
       GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      NOT_CRAN: true
       RGL_USE_NULL: true
 
     steps:
@@ -47,6 +46,6 @@ jobs:
           Rscript -e 'pkgdown::deploy_to_branch(new_process = FALSE)'
 
       - name: Build site without deploying
-        if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
+        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' && !contains(github.event.head_commit.message, '[skip-website]') }}
         run: |
           Rscript -e 'pkgdown::build_site(preview = FALSE, install = FALSE)'
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 46c4954fd..2083947b2 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: eplusr
 Title: A Toolkit for Using Whole Building Simulation Program
     'EnergyPlus'
-Version: 0.15.2
+Version: 0.15.2.9001
 Authors@R: c(
     person(given = "Hongyuan",
            family = "Jia",
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Suggests:
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE, roclets = c("rd", "namespace",
     "collate"))
-RoxygenNote: 7.2.1
+RoxygenNote: 7.2.2
 SystemRequirements: EnergyPlus (optional)
     (<https://energyplus.net>); udunits2
 Collate:
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 3f3498d37..96b1d1891 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -296,7 +296,6 @@ importFrom(lubridate,force_tz)
 importFrom(lubridate,hours)
 importFrom(lubridate,leap_year)
 importFrom(lubridate,make_date)
-importFrom(lubridate,make_datetime)
 importFrom(lubridate,mday)
 importFrom(lubridate,minutes)
 importFrom(lubridate,month)
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 7d1a51f20..953ae829b 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# eplusr (development version)
+
+## Bug fixes
+
+* Fix EPW parsing error due to an update of lubridate (#532).
+
 # eplusr 0.15.2
 
 ## New features
diff --git a/R/impl-epw.R b/R/impl-epw.R
index 3df0da791..b222d1634 100644
--- a/R/impl-epw.R
+++ b/R/impl-epw.R
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #' @importFrom stringi stri_isempty stri_match_first_regex stri_replace_all_charclass
 #' @importFrom stringi stri_split_charclass stri_split_fixed stri_sub "stri_sub<-"
 #' @importFrom stringi stri_trans_tolower stri_trans_totitle stri_trans_toupper
-#' @importFrom lubridate as_datetime make_date make_datetime force_tz tz
+#' @importFrom lubridate as_datetime make_date force_tz tz
 #' @importFrom lubridate days_in_month minutes hours days years leap_year
 #' @importFrom lubridate mday month yday year "year<-" parse_date_time
 #' @importFrom data.table "%chin%" chmatch copy fread fwrite as.data.table
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ parse_epw_file <- function (path, idd = NULL, encoding = "unknown") {
     set(epw_data, NULL, "line", seq_len(nrow(epw_data)))
 
     # parse date time
-    epw_data[, datetime := lubridate::make_datetime(year, month, day, hour, tz = "UTC")]
+    epw_data[, datetime := stringi::stri_datetime_create(year, month, day, hour, tz = "UTC", lenient = TRUE)]
 
     # match date time
     matched <- match_epw_data(epw_data, epw_header)
@@ -2223,10 +2223,11 @@ merge_epw_new_data <- function (epw_data, epw_header, matched, data, target_peri
     # }}}
 
     # check if the datetime is valid
-    expect_start <- make_datetime(
+    expect_start <- stringi::stri_datetime_create(
         lubridate::year(start), lubridate::month(start), lubridate::mday(start),
         # hour # minute
-        0L,    step
+        0L,    step,
+        tz = "UTC", lenient = TRUE
     )
     if (start != expect_start) {
         abort(paste0("Invalid starting date time found in input data. ",
@@ -2336,7 +2337,7 @@ merge_epw_new_data <- function (epw_data, epw_header, matched, data, target_peri
         set(data, NULL, "hour", data$hour + 1L)
 
         # ignore minute when validation
-        set(data, NULL, "datetime", lubridate::make_datetime(data$year, data$month, data$day, data$hour, tz = lubridate::tz(data$datetime)))
+        set(data, NULL, "datetime", stringi::stri_datetime_create(data$year, data$month, data$day, data$hour, tz = lubridate::tz(data$datetime), lenient = TRUE))
     }
 
     m <- match_epw_data(data, header, target_period)
diff --git a/R/impl-sql.R b/R/impl-sql.R
index 6b35e75b3..805d12020 100644
--- a/R/impl-sql.R
+++ b/R/impl-sql.R
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #' @importFrom RSQLite SQLite dbConnect dbDisconnect dbGetQuery dbListTables dbReadTable
 #' @importFrom data.table setDT setcolorder setorder
-#' @importFrom lubridate year force_tz make_datetime
+#' @importFrom lubridate year force_tz
 NULL
 
 # RPFREQ {{{
@@ -400,7 +400,8 @@ create_sql_datetime <- function (time, first_day = NULL, year = NULL, tz = "UTC"
     }
 
     set(time, NULL, "datetime",
-        lubridate::make_datetime(time$year, time$month, time$day, time$hour, time$minute, tz = tz)
+        # see https://github.com/tidyverse/lubridate/issues/1098
+        stringi::stri_datetime_create(time$year, time$month, time$day, time$hour, time$minute, tz = tz, lenient = TRUE)
     )
 
     set(time, NULL, "year", NULL)
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-assert.R b/tests/testthat/test-assert.R
index 00cfc7ec5..71a679077 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-assert.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-assert.R
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ test_that("Assertion functions", {
         file.create(file.path(tempdir(), "energyplus.exe"))
         is_eplus_path(tempdir())
     })
+    unlink(file.path(tempdir(), c("Energy+.idd", "energyplus", "energyplus.exe")))
 
     expect_false(is_idd(1))
     expect_true(is_idd(use_idd(8.8, download = "auto")))
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-run.R b/tests/testthat/test-run.R
index 1dd69f4e6..3a95bc6cf 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-run.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-run.R
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ test_that("ExpandObjects()", {
 test_that("Basement()", {
     skip_on_cran()
 
+    skip_if(Sys.getenv("_EPLUSR_SKIP_TESTS_BASEMENT_") != "")
     out_dir <- file.path(tempdir(), "Basement")
     if (!dir.exists(out_dir)) dir.create(out_dir)
 
@@ -298,6 +299,7 @@ test_that("Basement()", {
 test_that("Slab()", {
     skip_on_cran()
 
+    skip_if(Sys.getenv("_EPLUSR_SKIP_TESTS_BASEMENT_") != "")
     out_dir <- file.path(tempdir(), "Basement")
     if (!dir.exists(out_dir)) dir.create(out_dir)
 
@@ -603,44 +605,46 @@ test_that("energyplus()", {
     expect_true(is.na(files["experr"]))
     unlink(c(path_exp, out_dir), recursive = TRUE)
 
-    # can run Basement
-    path_base <- copy_eplus_example(8.8, "LgOffVAVusingBasement.idf")
-    expect_error(energyplus(path_base, NULL, out_dir, echo = FALSE))
-    # modify the input in order to reduce the simulation time
-    l <- read_lines(path_base)
-    l[grepl("IYRS: Maximum number of yearly iterations", string), string := "1;"]
-    write_lines(l, path_base)
-    res_base <- energyplus(path_base, weather, out_dir, design_day = TRUE, echo = FALSE)
-    expect_equal(length(res_base$file), 57L)
-    expect_equal({files <- unlist(res_base$file); files <- files[!is.na(files)]; length(files)}, 27L)
-    expect_equal(sum(!file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files))), 0L)
-    expect_equal(sort(unname(files[names(files) != "epw"])), list.files(out_dir, "LgOffVAVusingBasement"))
-    expect_equal(res_base$run[program == "Basement", exit_status], list(0L))
-    expect_true(file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files["expidf"])))
-    expect_true(file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files["bsmt_idf"])))
-    expect_true(file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files["bsmt_csv"])))
-    expect_true(file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files["bsmt_out"])))
-    expect_true(file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files["bsmt_audit"])))
-    unlink(c(path_base, out_dir), recursive = TRUE)
-
-    # can run Slab
-    path_slab <- copy_eplus_example(8.8, "5ZoneAirCooledWithSlab.idf")
-    expect_error(energyplus(path_slab, NULL, out_dir, echo = FALSE))
-    # modify the input in order to reduce the simulation time
-    l <- read_lines(path_slab)
-    l[grepl("IYRS: Number of years to iterate", string), string := "1,"]
-    l[grepl("ConvTol: Convergence Tolerance", string), string := "1;"]
-    write_lines(l, path_slab)
-    res_slab <- energyplus(path_slab, weather, out_dir, echo = FALSE)
-    expect_equal(length(res_slab$file), 57L)
-    expect_equal({files <- unlist(res_slab$file); files <- files[!is.na(files)]; length(files)}, 26L)
-    expect_equal(sum(!file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files))), 0L)
-    expect_equal(sort(unname(files[names(files) != "epw"])), list.files(out_dir, "5ZoneAirCooledWithSlab"))
-    expect_equal(res_slab$run[program == "Slab", exit_status], list(0L))
-    expect_true(file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files["slab_ger"])))
-    expect_true(file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files["slab_gtp"])))
-    expect_true(file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files["slab_out"])))
-    unlink(c(path_slab, out_dir), recursive = TRUE)
+    if(Sys.getenv("_EPLUSR_SKIP_TESTS_BASEMENT_") == "") {
+        # can run Basement
+        path_base <- copy_eplus_example(8.8, "LgOffVAVusingBasement.idf")
+        expect_error(energyplus(path_base, NULL, out_dir, echo = FALSE))
+        # modify the input in order to reduce the simulation time
+        l <- read_lines(path_base)
+        l[grepl("IYRS: Maximum number of yearly iterations", string), string := "1;"]
+        write_lines(l, path_base)
+        res_base <- energyplus(path_base, weather, out_dir, design_day = TRUE, echo = FALSE)
+        expect_equal(length(res_base$file), 57L)
+        expect_equal({files <- unlist(res_base$file); files <- files[!is.na(files)]; length(files)}, 27L)
+        expect_equal(sum(!file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files))), 0L)
+        expect_equal(sort(unname(files[names(files) != "epw"])), list.files(out_dir, "LgOffVAVusingBasement"))
+        expect_equal(res_base$run[program == "Basement", exit_status], list(0L))
+        expect_true(file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files["expidf"])))
+        expect_true(file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files["bsmt_idf"])))
+        expect_true(file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files["bsmt_csv"])))
+        expect_true(file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files["bsmt_out"])))
+        expect_true(file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files["bsmt_audit"])))
+        unlink(c(path_base, out_dir), recursive = TRUE)
+
+        # can run Slab
+        path_slab <- copy_eplus_example(8.8, "5ZoneAirCooledWithSlab.idf")
+        expect_error(energyplus(path_slab, NULL, out_dir, echo = FALSE))
+        # modify the input in order to reduce the simulation time
+        l <- read_lines(path_slab)
+        l[grepl("IYRS: Number of years to iterate", string), string := "1,"]
+        l[grepl("ConvTol: Convergence Tolerance", string), string := "1;"]
+        write_lines(l, path_slab)
+        res_slab <- energyplus(path_slab, weather, out_dir, echo = FALSE)
+        expect_equal(length(res_slab$file), 57L)
+        expect_equal({files <- unlist(res_slab$file); files <- files[!is.na(files)]; length(files)}, 26L)
+        expect_equal(sum(!file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files))), 0L)
+        expect_equal(sort(unname(files[names(files) != "epw"])), list.files(out_dir, "5ZoneAirCooledWithSlab"))
+        expect_equal(res_slab$run[program == "Slab", exit_status], list(0L))
+        expect_true(file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files["slab_ger"])))
+        expect_true(file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files["slab_gtp"])))
+        expect_true(file.exists(file.path(out_dir, files["slab_out"])))
+        unlink(c(path_slab, out_dir), recursive = TRUE)
+    }
 
     # can convert eso to IP
     path_ip <- copy_eplus_example(8.8, "1ZoneUncontrolled.idf")