diff --git a/RELEASE_HISTORY b/RELEASE_HISTORY
index de44840fd9999af3e906f9051a362e3295d6b377..02404870fc24b5ec702b1864901c26a10d016938 100644
--- a/RELEASE_HISTORY
+++ b/RELEASE_HISTORY
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Version 2.4.2 (Jan-23-2009)
+1. Fixed a minor bug in mergeBed when -nms and -s were used together.
+2. Improved the command line parsing to prevent the occasional segfault.
+
 Version 2.4.1 (Jan-12-2009)
 1. Updated BamTools libraries to remove some compilation issues on some systems/compilers.
 
diff --git a/src/utils/version/version.h b/src/utils/version/version.h
index 830bf9fd8375ff0ac542941b22a99ca4931c85fa..31e9bf7094e27206217a6ba3de035941df32f3f0 100644
--- a/src/utils/version/version.h
+++ b/src/utils/version/version.h
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
 
 // define the version.  All tools in the 
 // suite carry the same version number.
-#define VERSION "2.4.1"
+#define VERSION "2.4.2"
 
 #endif /* VERSION_H */