diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 78f59dd..b7049e0 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+1.54 2018-02-17
+
+     - Improving how Plerd handles UTF-8 source and template files. (Much like v1.44, except I think I got it right this time.)
+
+     - Adding mention of v1.52's alt-text improvement to the documentation.
+     
 1.53 2017-10-29
 
      - Fixing a bug where Markdown symbols, if present in the first paragraph of a post's source file, would appear in default social-media description tags.
diff --git a/lib/Plerd.pm b/lib/Plerd.pm
index 2fcd2a1..05cce12 100644
--- a/lib/Plerd.pm
+++ b/lib/Plerd.pm
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 package Plerd;
 
-our $VERSION = '1.53';
+our $VERSION = '1.54';
 
 use Moose;
 use Template;