diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 265136d2d5e79b491049951dda5bb8243e2a3b2b..725c3e0121b7c4235f25357d29d7d0e935168e84 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 Changelog is kept at [GitHub](https://github.com/Dronehub/minijson/releases),
 here's only the changelog for the version in development
 
-# v2.3
-
-* loads will now take any object that can provide 
-  it's `__bytes__`
+# v2.4
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2d7db3e539ad774fe887527997337e0dc5510a75..6ae55d2ce4fde28ae52a7c3848091ecb2f955bdf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,5 +17,8 @@ Refer to the [documentation](http://minijson.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=lat
 for use.
 
 If there are no binary wheels precompiled for this platform, you will need to compile it yourself.
+Alternatively, you can 
+[file an issue](https://github.com/Dronehub/minijson/issues/new)
+and I'll do my best to compile a wheel for you.
 
 In order to do that you must have `Cython` installed.
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index e47e06c47f9abc446e61a6e481d644ff5ca91f9e..c2c8a25d96960c21c2f2044561de8e015d82bf30 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # coding: utf-8
 [metadata]
-version = 2.3
+version = 2.4a1
 name = minijson
 long_description = file: README.md
 long_description_content_type = text/markdown; charset=UTF-8