diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,31 +1,33 @@
-0.5.0 (2015-05-05):
+0.5.0.1 (2015-05-06):
+    - Cleaned up the README file
+0.5.0 (2015-05-06):
     - Corrected the License field in the .cabal file to say BSD2 (instead of BSD3)
     - Data.ByteString.Lex.{Double,.Lazy.Double}: removed
     - Data.ByteString.Lex.Fractional: added based on the inefficiency of the old Alex-based parsers, as demonstrated by Hirotomo Moriwaki's bytestring-read (v0.3.0).
 
 0.4.3.3 (2015-05-30):
     - Moved VERSION to CHANGELOG
-0.4.3.1 (2014.03.07):
+0.4.3.1 (2014-03-07):
     - Updated the .cabal file to require newer alex for newer ghc.
-0.4.3 (2013.03.21):
+0.4.3 (2013-03-21):
     - Data.ByteString.Lex.Integral: Corrected a segmentation fault in packDecimal.
-0.4.2 (2013.03.20):
+0.4.2 (2013-03-20):
     - Data.ByteString.Lex.Integral: Improved packDecimal.
-0.4.1 (2012.00.00):
+0.4.1 (2012-00-00):
     - Data.ByteString.Lex.Integral: Added buffer overflow check for asHexadecimal
-0.4.0 (2012.02.03):
+0.4.0 (2012-02-03):
     - Data.ByteString.Lex.Integral: added readDecimal_
 
-0.3.0 (2012.01.28):
+0.3.0 (2012-01-28):
     - Added Data.ByteString.Lex.Integral
     - Converted repo to Darcs-2 hashed format.
     - wren ng thornton took over maintainership.
 
-0.2.1 (2010.02.14):
-0.2 (2008.10.15):
+0.2.1 (2010-02-14):
+0.2 (2008-10-15):
     - Add support for lexing lazy bytestrings.
 
-0.1.2 (2008.07.23):
-0.1.0.2 (2008.07.23):
-0.1.0.1 (2008.07.19):
-0.1.0 (2008.07.19):
+0.1.2 (2008-07-23):
+0.1.0.2 (2008-07-23):
+0.1.0.1 (2008-07-19):
+0.1.0 (2008-07-19):
diff --git a/README b/README
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 bytestring-lexing
 =================
 
-This is a relatively simple package and should be easy to install.
-It requires Alex for generating the Double lexers. Once that is
-installed, you should be able to use one of the following standard
-methods to install it.
+This is a simple package and should be easy to install. You should
+be able to use one of the following standard methods to install it.
 
     -- With cabal-install and without the source:
     $> cabal install bytestring-lexing
@@ -30,10 +28,9 @@
 ===========
 
 An attempt has been made to keep this library portable. However,
-it relies on some language extensions which have been accepted into
-the Haskell standard following the Haskell98 report. All the required
-language extensions are:
-
-FFI
+the decimalPrecision function in Data.ByteString.Lex.Fractional
+requires ScopedTypeVariables for efficiency. If your compiler does
+not support ScopedTypeVariables, this should be easy enough to fix.
+Contact the maintainer if this is an issue for you.
 
 ----------------------------------------------------------- fin.
diff --git a/bytestring-lexing.cabal b/bytestring-lexing.cabal
--- a/bytestring-lexing.cabal
+++ b/bytestring-lexing.cabal
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 Build-Type:     Simple
 
 Name:           bytestring-lexing
-Version:        0.5.0
+Version:        0.5.0.1
 Stability:      provisional
 Homepage:       http://code.haskell.org/~wren/
 Author:         wren gayle romano, Don Stewart