diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0d28f92..fa29105 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+## v1.5.0 / 2014 July 26
+
+ * **NEW**: allow reading of binary values written with other (non-serializing) clients.
+ * Fix [#36]: Batch writes weren't allowing set values.
+
+
 ## v1.4.0 / 2014 May 15
 
  * [#29] **CHANGE**: `list-tables` now returns a lazy seq and supports >100 tables (@marcuswr, @paraseba).
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a77d8b8..f33a9ba 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 **[API docs][]** | **[CHANGELOG][]** | [other Clojure libs][] | [Twitter][] | [contact/contributing](#contact--contributing) | current ([semantic][]) version:
 
 ```clojure
-[com.taoensso/faraday "1.4.0"] ; Stable
+[com.taoensso/faraday "1.5.0"] ; Stable
 ```
 
 v1.3.x is a **significant, backwards-compatible release**. Please see the [CHANGELOG][] for details.
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ DynamoDB's done a fantastic job of hiding (in a good way) a lot of the complexit
 Add the necessary dependency to your [Leiningen][] `project.clj` and `require` the library in your ns:
 
 ```clojure
-[com.taoensso/faraday "1.4.0"] ; project.clj
+[com.taoensso/faraday "1.5.0"] ; project.clj
 (ns my-app (:require [taoensso.faraday :as far])) ; ns
 ```
 
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index 485a23e..6149e0c 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-(defproject com.taoensso/faraday "1.4.0"
+(defproject com.taoensso/faraday "1.5.0"
   :author "Peter Taoussanis <https://www.taoensso.com>"
   :description "Clojure DynamoDB client"
   :url "https://github.com/ptaoussanis/faraday"