diff --git a/COPYING.txt b/COPYING.txt
index bdb5ed6..8f5d0bb 100644
--- a/COPYING.txt
+++ b/COPYING.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 =           An image-based 3D surface and volumetric mesh generator           =
 ===============================================================================
 
-Copyright (C) 2007-2015  Qianqian Fang <q.fang at neu.edu>
+Copyright (C) 2007-2020  Qianqian Fang <q.fang at neu.edu>
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a026da4..49397ec 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 | **Department** | Bioengineering           |
 | **Institute**  | Northeastern University  |
 | **Address**    | 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 |
-| **Version**    | 1.9.5 (Lion's Head - beta)      |
+| **Version**    | 1.9.6 (Lion's Head)      |
 | **License**    | GPL v2 or later (see COPYING) (this license does not cover the binaries under the bin/ directory, see Section III for more details) |
 | **URL**        | http://iso2mesh.sf.net   |
 
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ Linux distributions, you can recreate the mesh utility binaries under
 `iso2mesh/bin` folder using the source codes provided under `iso2mesh/tools`
 by following the below commands:
 
- ```  
+ ```
 git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/fangq/iso2mesh.git
 cd iso2mesh
 rm -rf bin/*.mex* bin/*.exe
@@ -181,13 +181,13 @@ make
 
 This will download and recompile the below binaries in the bin folder:
 
- - cgalmesh
- - cgalsurf
- - cgalsimp2
- - jmeshlib
- - meshfix
- - tetgen1.5
- - cork
+- cgalmesh
+- cgalsurf
+- cgalsimp2
+- jmeshlib
+- meshfix
+- tetgen1.5
+- cork
 
 Once these binary files are recreated, you can run all the major functionalities
 of Iso2Mesh. The gtrefine utility is depreciated and replaced by 
diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index 373a1dd..22f044f 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 **      Department of Bioengineering
 **      Northeastern University
 **      360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115
-*'''Version''': 1.9.5 (Lion's Head)
+*'''Version''': 1.9.6 (Lion's Head)
 *'''License''': GPL v2 or later (see COPYING) 
 **      (this license does not cover the binaries under the bin/ 
 **       directory, see Section III for more details)