diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 62407df..f70a5d0 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,30 +1,36 @@
 [package]
 name = "julid-rs"
-version = "1.6.1"
+version = "1.6.18"
 authors = ["Joe Ardent <code@ardent.nebcorp.com>"]
 edition = "2021"
 keywords = ["ulid", "library", "sqlite", "extension", "julid"]
 
-description = "A library and loadable extension for SQLite that uses it, that provides Joe's ULIDs."
+description = "A crate and loadable extension for SQLite that uses it, that provides Joe's ULIDs."
 readme = "README.md"
 license-file = "LICENSE.md"
 repository = "https://gitlab.com/nebkor/julid"
 
 [features]
 default = ["chrono", "serde", "sqlx"] # just the regular crate
-
 chrono = ["dep:chrono"]
-plugin = ["sqlite-loadable"] # builds  libjulid.* for loading into sqlite
 serde = ["dep:serde"]
 sqlx = ["dep:sqlx"]
 
+# WARNING! don't enable this feature in your project's Cargo.toml if using julid-rs as a dependency;
+# see https://gitlab.com/nebkor/julid/-/issues/1
+plugin = ["sqlite-loadable"] # builds  libjulid.* for loading into sqlite
+
 [lib]
 name = "julid"
 crate-type = ["cdylib", "rlib"]
 
 [dependencies]
 rand = "0.8"
+# all other deps are optional
+chrono = { version = "0.4", optional = true, default-features = false, features = ["std", "time"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"], optional = true }
 sqlx = { version = "0.7", features = ["sqlite"], default-features = false, optional = true }
 sqlite-loadable = { version = "0.0.5", optional = true }
-chrono = { version = "0.4.26", optional = true, default-features = false, features = ["std", "time"] }
+
+[package.metadata.docs.rs]
+all-features = true
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 42744b7..5f0d611 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -109,14 +109,14 @@ fn main() {
 }
 ```
 
-after adding it to your project's dependencies(eg, `cargo add julid-rs`; note the package name is
+after adding it to your project's dependencies (eg, `cargo add julid-rs`; note the package name is
 "julid-rs", but the library name as used in your `use` statements is just "julid"). By default, it
 will also include trait implementations for using Julids with
 [SQLx](https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx), and serializing/deserializing with
 [Serde](https://serde.rs/), via the `sqlx` and `serde` features, respectively. One final default
-feature, `chrono`, uses the Chrono crate to return the timestamp as a
-[`DateTime`](https://docs.rs/chrono/latest/chrono/struct.DateTime.html) by adding a `created_at()`
-method to `Julid` instances.
+optional feature, `chrono`, uses the Chrono crate to return the timestamp as a
+[`DateTime`](https://docs.rs/chrono/latest/chrono/struct.DateTime.html) by adding a `created_at(&self)`
+method to `Julid`.
 
 # Thanks
 
@@ -124,7 +124,4 @@ This crate wouldn't have been possible without a lot of inspiration (and a littl
 stealing) from the [ulid-rs](https://github.com/dylanhart/ulid-rs) crate, as well as the
 [sqlite-loadable-rs](https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-loadable-rs) crate, which made it *extremely*
 easy to write the SQLite extension. Thank you, authors of those crates! Feel free to steal from this
-project! (though I did submit a [pull request](https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-loadable-rs/pull/13)
-to the sqlite-loadable-rs project, to add an entrypoint macro that returns
-[`SQLITE_OK_LOAD_PERMANENTLY`](https://www.sqlite.org/rescode.html#ok_load_permanently), which would
-let me use that instead of manually implementing the entrypoint to return that)
+project!
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 4213d88..2dab55d 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.61
+1.618