diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 3582736..a49bb21 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+v1.4.3
+
+* add empty rebar.config for mix build tool
+* add `attempt_atom` option for decoding json objects
+* fix a bug related to multibyte codepoints and streaming input
+* add a missing error state in the encoder
+
 v1.4.2
 
 * build apparatus cleaned up and streamlined
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3180a5b..ff4d670 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# jsx (v1.4.2) #
+# jsx (v1.4.3) #
 
 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 97b5bf0..3837287 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, "1.4.2"},
+    {vsn, "1.4.3"},
     {modules, [
         jsx,
         jsx_encoder,