diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e0027a7..a57158a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -25,14 +25,14 @@ educated tradeoffs to achieve high performance:
 <dependency>
     <groupId>com.sahilbondre</groupId>
     <artifactId>fireflydb</artifactId>
-    <version>0.1.0</version>
+    <version>0.1.1</version>
 </dependency>
 ```
 
 ### Gradle
 
 ```gradle
-implementation 'com.sahilbondre:fireflydb:0.1.0'
+implementation 'com.sahilbondre:fireflydb:0.1.1'
 ```
 
 ## API
diff --git a/benchmarks/firefly/pom.xml b/benchmarks/firefly/pom.xml
index dac145e..6f0feda 100644
--- a/benchmarks/firefly/pom.xml
+++ b/benchmarks/firefly/pom.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.sahilbondre</groupId>
             <artifactId>fireflydb</artifactId>
-            <version>0.1.0</version>
+            <version>0.1.1</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1059f17..1014850 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 
     <groupId>com.sahilbondre</groupId>
     <artifactId>fireflydb</artifactId>
-    <version>0.1.0</version>
+    <version>0.1.1</version>
 
     <name>${project.artifactId}</name>
-    <description>A fast hash-based key-value storage engine with microsecond latency.</description>
+    <description>FireflyDB is a fast, thread-safe, JVM-based key-value storage engine with microsecond latency.</description>
     <url>https://github.com/godcrampy/fireflydb</url>
 
     <licenses>