diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index a83e982..74ff0ec 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-December 06 2024
+December 16 2024
diff --git a/doc/CHANGES b/doc/CHANGES
index 1dae0d5..43bb5c2 100644
--- a/doc/CHANGES
+++ b/doc/CHANGES
@@ -15476,11 +15476,16 @@ August 11 2024
 midicopy: introduced -transpose option
 
 August 13 2024
-abcmidi: in event_handle_gchord() in store.c increased the size
+abc2midi: in event_handle_gchord() in store.c increased the size
 of variable name to char name[10] to avoid potential buffer overflow.
 
 December 06 2024
-abcmidi: process_midix(s) in store.c can cause a segmentation error
+abc2midi: process_midix(s) in store.c can cause a segmentation error
 if it cannot match MIDIx with the corresponding MIDIdef. Fix:
 added a return statement after reporting the problem in event_error(msg).
 
+December 16 2024
+abc2midi: corrections to the sus, sus4, sus2 and sus9 chords provided
+by Avik Topchyan were incorporated in the function setup_chordnames()
+into store.c
+
diff --git a/doc/readme.txt b/doc/readme.txt
index 92e3052..48d0262 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 4.95 December 06 2024
+abc2midi version 4.96 December 16 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 cad85b3..be4df03 100755
--- a/store.c
+++ b/store.c
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ int main()
 
 */
 
-#define VERSION "4.95 December 06 2024 abc2midi" 
+#define VERSION "4.96 December 16 2024 abc2midi" 
 
 /* enables reading V: indication in header */
 #define XTEN1 1
@@ -838,9 +838,12 @@ static void setup_chordnames()
   /* static int list_11[6] = {0, 4, 7, 10, 2, 5}; */
   static int list_11[6] = {0, 4, 7, 10, 14, 17};
   static int list_dim9[5] = {0, 3, 6, 9, 13}; /* [SS] 2016-02-08 */
-  static int list_sus[3] = {0, 5, 7};
-  static int list_sus4[3] = {0, 3, 5}; /* [SS] 2015-07-08 2024-06-11 */
-  static int list_sus9[3] = {0, 2, 7};
+
+  static int list_sus[3] = {0, 5, 7}; /* [AT] sus is a synonym of sus4 */
+  static int list_sus4[3] = {0, 5, 7}; /* [SS] 2015-07-08 [AT] 2024-12-16*/
+  static int list_sus2[3] = {0, 2, 7}; /* [AT] 2024-12-16 */
+  static int list_sus9[4] = {0, 2, 5, 9}; /* [AT] 2024-12-16 */
+
   static int list_7sus4[4] = {0, 5, 7, 10};
   static int list_7sus9[4] = {0, 2, 7, 10};
   static int list_5[2] = {0, 7};
@@ -865,10 +868,12 @@ static void setup_chordnames()
   addchordname("M9", 5, list_M9);
   addchordname("11", 6, list_11);
   addchordname("dim9", 5, list_dim9);
-  addchordname("sus", 3, list_sus);
-  addchordname("sus4", 3, list_sus4); /* [SS] 2015-07-08 */
-  addchordname("sus9", 3, list_sus9);
-  addchordname("sus2", 3, list_sus9); /* [SS] 2015-07-08 */
+
+  addchordname("sus", 3, list_sus); /* [AT] sus is a synonym of sus4 */
+  addchordname("sus4", 3, list_sus4); /* [SS] 2015-07-08 [AT] 2024-12-16 */
+  addchordname("sus2", 3, list_sus2); /* [SS] 2015-07-08 [AT] 2024-12-16 */
+  addchordname("sus9", 3, list_sus9);  /* [AT] 2024-12-16 */
+
   addchordname("7sus2", 4, list_7sus9); /* [SS] 2015-07-08 */
   addchordname("7sus4", 4, list_7sus4);
   addchordname("7sus9", 4, list_7sus9);