diff --git a/ChangeLog.txt b/ChangeLog.txt
index 62be044b1c31107805388e8a56691719ca60ea68..5e0cb14deeb50bff1b588068ccd77d063c7619b6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.txt
+++ b/ChangeLog.txt
@@ -6,12 +6,16 @@
 
 JSONlab ChangeLog (key features marked by *):
 
+== JSONlab 0.9.9 (codename: Optimus - beta), FangQ <fangq (at) nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> ==
+
+ 2014/01/22  use binary read and write in saveubjson and loadubjson
+
 == JSONlab 0.9.8-1 (codename: Optimus - alpha update 1), FangQ <fangq (at) nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> ==
 
- 2013/10/07 Better round-trip conservation for empty arrays and structs (patch submitted by Yul Kang)
+ 2013/10/07 better round-trip conservation for empty arrays and structs (patch submitted by Yul Kang)
 
 == JSONlab 0.9.8 (codename: Optimus - alpha), FangQ <fangq (at) nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> ==
- 2013/08/23 *Universal Binary JSON (UBJSON) support, including both saveubjson and loadubjson
+ 2013/08/23 *universal Binary JSON (UBJSON) support, including both saveubjson and loadubjson
 
 == JSONlab 0.9.1 (codename: Rodimus, update 1), FangQ <fangq (at) nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> ==
  2012/12/18 *handling of various empty and sparse matrices (fixes submitted by Niclas Borlin)
diff --git a/LICENSE_BSD.txt b/LICENSE_BSD.txt
index cc5fb4d6f3f4c76cf8dacb6cbdc90ebdb5d57a70..5c5cef55e8fe5ba8d862e701c659612817d087fd 100644
--- a/LICENSE_BSD.txt
+++ b/LICENSE_BSD.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright 2011 Qianqian Fang <fangq at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>. All rights reserved.
+Copyright 2011-2014 Qianqian Fang <fangq at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>. All rights reserved.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are
 permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index f77dd05757af773837eff75aac068de7da333206..c10994e00651f0a4885619bd2303efbd4a58f99a 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 =           An open-source MATLAB/Octave JSON encoder and decoder             =
 ===============================================================================
 
-*Copyright (c) 2011-2013  Qianqian Fang <fangq at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
+*Copyright (c) 2011-2014  Qianqian Fang <fangq at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
 *License: BSD or GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL v3), see License*.txt
-*Version: 0.9.8 (Optimus - alpha)
+*Version: 0.9.9 (Optimus - beta)
 
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