diff --git a/Changes.md b/Changes.md
index d717ac6..53efaf9 100644
--- a/Changes.md
+++ b/Changes.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 Revision history for the Python package RiveScript.
 
+1.14.1  Aug 9 2016
+  - Fix a regression when handling Unicode strings under Python 2 (bug #40).
+
 1.14.0  Jul 23 2016
   - Make the session manager pluggable and replaceable. RiveScript still uses
     an in-memory store for user variables, but this can be swapped out with a
diff --git a/python-rivescript.spec b/python-rivescript.spec
index 673f8c4..29dd676 100644
--- a/python-rivescript.spec
+++ b/python-rivescript.spec
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 %global desc A scripting language to make it easy to write responses for a chatterbot.
 
 Name:           python-%{srcname}
-Version:        1.14.0
+Version:        1.14.1
 Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        %{sum}
 
diff --git a/rivescript/__init__.py b/rivescript/__init__.py
index 9eb4ed1..682bcb2 100644
--- a/rivescript/__init__.py
+++ b/rivescript/__init__.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 __docformat__  = 'plaintext'
 
 __all__      = ['rivescript']
-__version__  = '1.14.0'
+__version__  = '1.14.1'
 
 from .rivescript import RiveScript
 from .exceptions import (