diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
index 6700f8f..8e45d8a 100644
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# jsx (v1.2.1) #
+# jsx (v1.3) #
 
 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 59cad9b..ccbcc93 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, "1.2.1"},
+    {vsn, "1.3"},
     {modules, [
         jsx,
         jsx_encoder,