diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ba62450a2..3f6d08fa1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ ngc-learn requires:
 -->
 
 ---
-ngc-learn 1.0.beta0 and later require Python 3.10 or newer as well as ngcsimlib >=0.2.b1.
+ngc-learn 1.0.beta0 and later require Python 3.10 or newer as well as ngcsimlib >=0.2.b2.
 ngc-learn's plotting capabilities (routines within `ngclearn.utils.viz`) require
 Matplotlib (>=3.8.0) and imageio (>=2.31.5) and both plotting and density estimation
 tools (routines within ``ngclearn.utils.density``) will require Scikit-learn (>=0.24.2).
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ $ python install -e .
 </pre>
 
 **Version:**<br>
-1.0.0-Beta <!-- -Alpha -->
+1.0.2-Beta <!-- -Alpha -->
 
 Author:
 Alexander G. Ororbia II<br>
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index cc9734fe1..6da49ec75 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "ngclearn"
-version = "1.0.beta1"
+version = "1.0.beta2"
 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"},