diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7aef8fb..fb82f9e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 Current [semantic](http://semver.org/) version:
 
 ```clojure
-[com.taoensso/nippy "0.10.0"]
+[com.taoensso/nippy "0.10.1"]
 ```
 
-**Breaking changes** (minor) since _0.9.x_:
+**Breaking changes** since _0.9.x_:
  * Affecting **users that were manually disabling compression**:
-   * API has changed for `freeze-to-bytes` and `thaw-from-bytes` _when not using default options_.
+   * API has changed for `freeze-to-bytes` and `thaw-from-bytes` when not using default options.
 
 # Nippy, a serialization library for Clojure
 
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Nippy uses [Snappy](http://code.google.com/p/snappy-java/) which currently has a
 Depend on Nippy in your `project.clj`:
 
 ```clojure
-[com.taoensso/nippy "0.10.0"]
+[com.taoensso/nippy "0.10.1"]
 ```
 
 and `require` the library:
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index e92da22..40d5bf4 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-(defproject com.taoensso/nippy "0.10.0"
+(defproject com.taoensso/nippy "0.10.1"
   :description "Simple, high-performance Clojure serialization library."
   :url "https://github.com/ptaoussanis/nippy"
   :license {:name "Eclipse Public License"}
@@ -6,15 +6,9 @@
                  [org.xerial.snappy/snappy-java "1.0.4.1"]]
   :profiles {:1.3  {:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.3.0"]]}
              :1.4  {:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.4.0"]]}
-             :1.5  {:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.5.0-master-SNAPSHOT"]]}
+             :1.5  {:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.5.0-alpha3"]]}
              :dev  {:dependencies []}
              :test {:dependencies []}}
-  :repositories {"sonatype" {:url "http://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases"
-                             :snapshots false
-                             :releases {:checksum :fail :update :always}}
-                 "sonatype-snapshots" {:url "http://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots"
-                                       :snapshots true
-                                       :releases {:checksum :fail :update :always}}}
   :aliases {"test-all" ["with-profile" "test,1.3:test,1.4:test,1.5" "test"]}
   :min-lein-version "2.0.0"
   :warn-on-reflection true)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/taoensso/nippy.clj b/src/taoensso/nippy.clj
index 272a026..0eb8706 100644
--- a/src/taoensso/nippy.clj
+++ b/src/taoensso/nippy.clj
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@
 
 ;;;; Define type IDs
 
-(def ^:const schema-header "\u0000~0.9.0")
-
 ;;                           1
 (def ^:const id-bytes   (int 2))
 (def ^:const id-nil     (int 3))
@@ -156,7 +154,6 @@
   "Serializes x to given output stream."
   [data-output-stream x]
   (binding [*print-dup* true] ; For `pr-str`
-    (freeze-to-stream!* data-output-stream schema-header)
     (freeze-to-stream!* data-output-stream x)))
 
 (defn freeze-to-bytes
@@ -223,22 +220,12 @@
 
      (throw (Exception. (str "Failed to thaw unknown type ID: " type-id))))))
 
-;; TODO Scheduled for Carmine version 1.0.0
-;; (defn thaw-from-stream!
-;;   "Deserializes an object from given input stream."
-;;   [data-input-stream read-eval?]
-;;   (binding [*read-eval* read-eval?]
-;;     (let [schema-header (thaw-from-stream!* data-input-stream)]
-;;       (thaw-from-stream!* data-input-stream))))
-
-;; DEPRECATED: Includes temporary support for older versions of serialization
-;; schema that didn't include a version header. This is for people that used
-;; Carmine < 0.8.3 and haven't yet migrated their databases.
 (defn thaw-from-stream!
   "Deserializes an object from given input stream."
   [data-input-stream read-eval?]
   (binding [*read-eval* read-eval?]
-    (let [maybe-schema-header (thaw-from-stream!* data-input-stream)]
+    (let [;; Support older versions of Nippy that wrote a version header
+          maybe-schema-header (thaw-from-stream!* data-input-stream)]
       (if (and (string? maybe-schema-header)
                (.startsWith ^String maybe-schema-header "\u0000~"))
         (thaw-from-stream!* data-input-stream)