diff --git a/CHANGES.markdown b/CHANGES.markdown
index 18d0a59..f74f482 100644
--- a/CHANGES.markdown
+++ b/CHANGES.markdown
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+v1.4.1
+
+* fixes a bug with interaction between `dirty_strings` and even numbers of escape characters
+* performance enhancements
+
 v1.4
 
 * radically refactored decoder
diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
index 3e20acf..bdcb735 100644
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# jsx (v1.4) #
+# jsx (v1.4.1) #
 
 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 4991b96..b0f6f78 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"},
+    {vsn, "1.4.1"},
     {modules, [
         jsx,
         jsx_encoder,