diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b38f4d6a4..adc78abe5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Python 3.11.4 (main, MONTH  DAY YEAR, TIME) [GCC XX.X.X] on linux
 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import ngclearn
 >>> ngclearn.__version__
-'1.2b0'
+'1.2b1'
 ```
 
 <i>Note:</i> For access to the previous Tensorflow-2 version of ngc-learn (of
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ $ python install -e .
 </pre>
 
 **Version:**<br>
-1.2.0-Beta <!-- -Alpha -->
+1.2.1-Beta <!-- -Alpha -->
 
 Author:
 Alexander G. Ororbia II<br>
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index 8b6bead03..969753d74 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Welcome to ngc-learn's documentation!
 
 **ngc-learn** is a Python library for building, simulating, and analyzing
 biomimetic computational models, arbitrary predictive processing/coding models,
-and spiking neural networks. This toolkit is built on top of
+and spiking neural networks. This toolkit is built on top of 
 `JAX <https://github.com/google/jax>`_ and is distributed under the 3-Clause BSD license.
 
 .. toctree::
diff --git a/docs/installation.md b/docs/installation.md
index a158d2e31..ac3f22f52 100644
--- a/docs/installation.md
+++ b/docs/installation.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ requires that you ensure that you have installed the following base dependencies
 your system. Note that this library was developed and tested on Ubuntu 22.04 (and 18.04).
 Specifically, ngc-learn requires:
 * Python (>=3.10)
-* ngcsimlib (>=0.3.b2), (<a href="https://github.com/NACLab/ngc-sim-lib">official page</a>)
+* ngcsimlib (>=0.3.b3), (<a href="https://github.com/NACLab/ngc-sim-lib">official page</a>)
 * NumPy (>=1.26.0)
 * SciPy (>=1.7.0)
 * JAX (>= 0.4.18; and jaxlib>=0.4.18) <!--(tested for cuda 11.8)-->
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Python 3.11.4 (main, MONTH  DAY YEAR, TIME) [GCC XX.X.X] on linux
 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import ngclearn
 >>> ngclearn.__version__
-'1.2b0'
+'1.2b1'
 ```
 
 <i>Note</i>: If you do not have a JSON configuration file in place (see tutorials
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8e7da02c6..2902427a6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "ngclearn"
-version = "1.2.beta0"
+version = "1.2.beta1"
 description = "Simulation software for building and analyzing arbitrary predictive coding, spiking network, and biomimetic neural systems."
 authors = [
   {name = "Alexander Ororbia", email = "ago@cs.rit.edu"},