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+0.9.0
+=====
+
+* updated rebar to latest (git commit: a43381fe0bd3d6929b31)
+* integrated all tests into most relevant modules, there's now no useless .beam files to pollute production code
+* finalized api. no public function exports or function options will be REMOVED, though some may still be added 
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diff --git a/doc/overview.edoc b/doc/overview.edoc
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--- a/doc/overview.edoc
+++ b/doc/overview.edoc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 @author Alisdair Sullivan <alisdairsullivan@yahoo.ca>
 @copyright 2010 Alisdair Sullivan
-@version really, really beta
+@version 0.9.0
 @title jsx
 @doc jsx is a json parser with an easily transformable representation, the ability to parse streams incrementally, low memory overhead and a clean generator based interface. it also includes an implementation of <a href="http://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0018.html">eep0018</a>, a json reformatter and a json verifier
 
diff --git a/src/jsx.erl b/src/jsx.erl
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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 %% @author Alisdair Sullivan <alisdairsullivan@yahoo.ca>
 %% @copyright 2010 Alisdair Sullivan
-%% @version really, really beta
+%% @version 0.9.0
 %% @doc this module defines the interface to the jsx json parsing library
 
 -module(jsx).