diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3819199..6809639 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ New for SuchTree v1.2
 * Quartet topology tests provided by `SuchTree.get_quartet_topology( a, b, c, d )`
 * Optimized, thread-safe bulk quartet topology tests provided by
   `SuchTree.quartet_topologies( [N,4] )`
+* SuchTree now automatically detects and uses NEWICK strings as for initialization
 
 New for SuchTree v1.1
 
diff --git a/SuchTree/__init__.py b/SuchTree/__init__.py
index 604541e..c367529 100755
--- a/SuchTree/__init__.py
+++ b/SuchTree/__init__.py
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 from MuchTree import SuchTree, SuchLinkedTrees
 
-__version__ = 1.1
+__version__ = 1.2