diff --git a/lonboard/layer.py b/lonboard/layer.py
index 9c260137..0e1a171a 100644
--- a/lonboard/layer.py
+++ b/lonboard/layer.py
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
 
 class BaseLayer(ipywidgets.Widget):
     def _repr_keys(self):
-        # Exclude the table_buffer from the repr
+        # Exclude the table_buffer from the repr; otherwise printing the buffer will
+        # often crash the kernel.
 
         # TODO: also exclude keys when numpy array?
         exclude_keys = {"table_buffer"}
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c88c0eea..189d3ff5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "lonboard"
-version = "0.1.0"
+version = "0.1.0-beta.1"
 description = "Extremely fast geospatial data visualization in Python."
 authors = ["Kyle Barron <kyle@developmentseed.org>"]
 readme = "README.md"