diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b13d850..6a11271 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+* Fri Dec 17 2004 Marc Waeckerlin <marc@waeckerlin.org> - mrw-c++-1.4.0 (mrw)
+	- change both execute methods to newer, more stable implementation
+	- new feature: tokenizer
 * Thu Dec 16 2004 Marc Waeckerlin <marc@waeckerlin.org> - mrw-c++-1.3.1 (mrw)
 	- regular expressions can now evaluate and return sub matches
 	- bugfix: many inline forgotten in string.hpp
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 86b463d..f1c5fac 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2004-12-17
+
+The new implementation of Exec was not so stable, now it works perfectly.
+
+New feature: A simple string tokenizer, in the regular expressions module.
+
 2004-12-14
 
 Extended Exec so, that it is possible to pass stdin to the child
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 0dfd8d1..09a4472 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 ## @license LGPL, see file <a href="license.html">COPYING</a>
 ##
 ## $Log$
+## Revision 1.20  2004/12/17 16:29:33  marc
+## *** empty log message ***
+##
 ## Revision 1.19  2004/12/16 13:10:22  marc
 ## release 1.3.1
 ##
@@ -67,8 +70,8 @@
 AC_INIT([mrw/mrw.hpp.in])
 PACKAGENAME=mrw-c++
 m4_define(x_major, 1)
-m4_define(x_minor, 3)
-m4_define(x_least, 1)
+m4_define(x_minor, 4)
+m4_define(x_least, 0)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(@PACKAGENAME@, @MAJOR@.@MINOR@.@LEAST@, [marc@waeckerlin.org])
 
 # copy M4 to shell