diff --git a/docs/CHANGES.md b/docs/CHANGES.md
index ebe002d..4369b65 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGES.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+v0.2.5
+------
++ better error messages
+
 v0.2.4
 ------
 + 30-40% speed improvement when annotating with few, large files by parallelizing decompression.
diff --git a/vcfanno.go b/vcfanno.go
index 1d0a749..df9555e 100644
--- a/vcfanno.go
+++ b/vcfanno.go
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/brentp/xopen"
 )
 
-var VERSION = "0.2.4"
+var VERSION = "0.2.5"
 
 func envGet(name string, vdefault int) int {
 	sval := os.Getenv(name)