diff --git a/salvia.cabal b/salvia.cabal
--- a/salvia.cabal
+++ b/salvia.cabal
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 Name:             salvia
-Version:          0.1
-Description:      Lightweight Haskell Web Server Framework
+Version:          0.1.1
+Description:      Lightweight Haskell Web Server Framework with modular support
+                  for serving static files, directories indices, default error
+                  responses, connection counting and logging, HEAD and PUT
+                  requests, keep-alives, custom banner printing, default
+                  handler environments for parsing request and printing
+                  responses, dispatching based on request methods, URI, paths
+                  and filename extension, URI rewriting and redirection,
+                  virtual hosting, cookie, session and user management and
+                  more...
+
 Synopsis:         Lightweight Haskell Web Server Framework 
 Category:         Network, Web
 License:          BSD3
@@ -15,7 +24,7 @@
                   directory,
                   pureMD5 == 0.2.4,
                   fclabels ==0.1,
-                  encoding,
+                  encoding ==0.5.1,
                   filepath,
                   mtl ==1.1.0.2,
                   network,
diff --git a/src/Network/Salvia/Core/IO.hs b/src/Network/Salvia/Core/IO.hs
--- a/src/Network/Salvia/Core/IO.hs
+++ b/src/Network/Salvia/Core/IO.hs
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 -- TODO: we are mixing two encoding libs. fix.
 
 import Control.Monad.State
-import Data.Encoding (decodeLazy)
+import Data.Encoding (decodeLazyByteString)
 import Data.Encoding.UTF8
 import Data.Record.Label
 import Network.Protocol.Http
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
 -}
 
 contentsUtf8 :: Handler (Maybe String)
-contentsUtf8 = (fmap $ decodeLazy UTF8) `liftM` contents
+contentsUtf8 = (fmap $ decodeLazyByteString UTF8) `liftM` contents
 
 {- |
 Try to parse the supplied request body as URI encoded `POST` parameters in