diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index f74f482..3582736 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+v1.4.2
+
+* build apparatus cleaned up and streamlined
+* new `{raw, <<"json goes here">>}` intermediate form to support direct generation of json
+* bugfixes involving inappropriate exceptions from jsx functions
+
 v1.4.1
 
 * fixes a bug with interaction between `dirty_strings` and even numbers of escape characters
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7568d8e..b723ec5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# jsx (v1.4.1) #
+# jsx (v1.4.2) #
 
 an erlang application for consuming, producing and manipulating [json][json]. 
 inspired by [yajl][yajl]
diff --git a/src/jsx.app.src b/src/jsx.app.src
index b0f6f78..97b5bf0 100644
--- a/src/jsx.app.src
+++ b/src/jsx.app.src
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {application, jsx,
 [
     {description, "a streaming, evented json parsing toolkit"},
-    {vsn, "1.4.1"},
+    {vsn, "1.4.2"},
     {modules, [
         jsx,
         jsx_encoder,