diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index b351259f..381085bd 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: htmltools
 Title: Tools for HTML
-Version: 0.5.8.9000
+Version: 0.5.9
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Joe", "Cheng", , "joe@posit.co", role = "aut"),
     person("Carson", "Sievert", , "carson@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index d3e54cdf..c310a6f4 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# htmltools (development version)
+# htmltools 0.5.9
 
 * Fix test for testthat 3.3.0. (#442) 
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a38aeb4a..06624d01 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ remotes::install_github("rstudio/htmltools")
 
 [This Shiny article](https://shiny.posit.co/articles/html-tags.html) provides a great introduction to `{htmltools}` (even if you're not interested in Shiny). As you'll learn in that article, the general foundation that `{htmltools}` provides allows other R packages (e.g., [`{htmlwidgets}`](http://www.htmlwidgets.org/), [`{crosstalk}`](https://rstudio.github.io/crosstalk/), etc.) to provide "HTML components" in R that users can manipulate and combine in ways the component authors didn't foresee.
 
-For example, as described in depth [here](https://plotly-r.com/arranging-views.html#arranging-htmlwidgets), `{htmltools}` makes it fairly easy to arrange numerous `{htmlwidgets}` (e.g., `{plotly}` graphs) into a single static HTML webpage:
+For example, as described in depth [here](https://plotly-book.netlify.app/arranging-views.html#arranging-htmlwidgets), `{htmltools}` makes it fairly easy to arrange numerous `{htmlwidgets}` (e.g., `{plotly}` graphs) into a single static HTML webpage:
 
 ```r
 library(htmltools)
diff --git a/src/template.c b/src/template.c
index 4269b388..d25e0017 100644
--- a/src/template.c
+++ b/src/template.c
@@ -199,10 +199,8 @@ SEXP template_dfa(SEXP x_sxp) {
   UNPROTECT(1);
 
   if (pieces_num < Rf_xlength(pieces)) {
-    // Using SETLENGTH and SET_TRUELENGTH in this way allows us to resize the
-    // vector without an extra copy.
-    SETLENGTH(pieces, pieces_num);
-    SET_TRUELENGTH(pieces, pieces_num);
+    // Resize the vector to the actual number of pieces
+    REPROTECT(pieces = Rf_xlengthgets(pieces, pieces_num), pieces_idx);
   }
 
   UNPROTECT(1);