diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 95db64b44..6960f114f 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: sits
 Type: Package
-Version: 0.15.0-3
+Version: 0.15.0-4
 Title: Satellite Image Time Series Analysis for Remote Sensing Data Cubes
 Authors@R: c(person('Rolf', 'Simoes', role = c('aut'), email = 'rolf.simoes@inpe.br'),
              person('Gilberto', 'Camara', role = c('aut', 'cre'), email = 'gilberto.camara@inpe.br'),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 1d93a0a78..197c9e049 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ We are preparing to release the package on CRAN and are making relevant changes
 
 # What's new in SITS version 0.15.0 
 
+### New features in SITS version 0.15.0-4
+* Change `gdalcubes_chunk_size` in "config.yml" to improve `sits_regularize()`.
+
 ### New features in SITS version 0.15.0-3
 * Fix bug in `.source_collection_access_test` to pass ellipsis to `rstac::post_request` function.
 
diff --git a/inst/extdata/config.yml b/inst/extdata/config.yml
index 87f618fff..4ddc6d396 100644
--- a/inst/extdata/config.yml
+++ b/inst/extdata/config.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ raster_api_package      : "terra"
 gdal_creation_options   : ["COMPRESS=LZW", "BIGTIFF=YES"]
 
 # configuration for gdalcubes chunk
-gdalcubes_chunk_size   : [1, 256, 256]
+gdalcubes_chunk_size   : [1, 2048, 2048]
 
 # local cube config options
 local_s3_class          : ["local_cube", "raster_cube"]