diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 18d42005b1..6c25528aaa 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
 
+2.3-124 | 2014-08-26 09:24:19 -0500
+
+  * Better documentation for sub_bytes (Jimmy Jones)
+
+  * BIT-1234: Fix build on systems that already have ntohll/htonll
+    (Jon Siwek)
+
 2.3-121 | 2014-08-22 15:22:15 -0700
 
   * Detect functions that try to bind variables from an outer scope
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 99c4783780..d090b23daf 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.3-121
+2.3-124
diff --git a/src/strings.bif b/src/strings.bif
index f50eb1f89b..4a30ca2aa4 100644
--- a/src/strings.bif
+++ b/src/strings.bif
@@ -308,7 +308,8 @@ function edit%(arg_s: string, arg_edit_char: string%): string
 ##
 ## s: The string to obtain a substring from.
 ##
-## start: The starting position of the substring in *s*
+## start: The starting position of the substring in *s*, where 1 is the first
+##        character. As a special case, 0 also represents the first character.
 ##
 ## n: The number of characters to extract, beginning at *start*.
 ##