diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 3220d73..e9c2613 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-August 11 2024
+August 13 2024
diff --git a/doc/CHANGES b/doc/CHANGES
index d0b94e7..c4293b5 100644
--- a/doc/CHANGES
+++ b/doc/CHANGES
@@ -15472,3 +15472,11 @@ June 11 2024
 
 abc2midi: corrected the sus4 chord in store.c
 
+August 11 2024
+midicopy: introduced -transpose option
+
+August 13 2024
+abcmidi: in event_handle_gchord() in store.c increased the size
+of variable name to char name[10] to avoid potential buffer overflow.
+
+
diff --git a/doc/readme.txt b/doc/readme.txt
index 6f64754..83398ca 100644
--- a/doc/readme.txt
+++ b/doc/readme.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 abcMIDI :   abc <-> MIDI conversion utilities
 
 midi2abc version 3.59 February 08 2023
-abc2midi version 4.93 June 11 2024
+abc2midi version 4.94 August 13 2024
 abc2abc  version 2.22 April 30 2024
 yaps     version 1.94 April 30 2024
 abcmatch version 1.83 February 19 2024
diff --git a/store.c b/store.c
index 9de6077..e4406d2 100755
--- a/store.c
+++ b/store.c
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ int main()
 
 */
 
-#define VERSION "4.93 June 06 2024 abc2midi" 
+#define VERSION "4.94 August 13 2024 abc2midi" 
 
 /* enables reading V: indication in header */
 #define XTEN1 1
@@ -4479,7 +4479,7 @@ char* s;
   int basepitch;
   char accidental, accidental2, note; /* [SS] 2021-12-05 */
   char* p;
-  char name[9];
+  char name[10]; /* JA increased from 9 to 10  2024-08-13 */
   int i;
   int chordno;
   int bassnote;