diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0a7bec3..5b49691 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ translation is most of each function; what an above-libc implementation has to
 get right is the places where the C library's vocabulary and openkal's do
 **not** correspond, and those are the places the sources comment individually.
 
+## What 0.14.2 corrects
+
+The manifest declares `openkal = "^0.25.0"`. An implementation written against a
+patch release of the specification conforms to every later patch of that minor
+version (openkal clause 8); with an exact version, a consumer that names openkal
+0.25.1 could not resolve with this implementation.
+
 ## What it provides
 
 Twelve of the sixteen interfaces, in whole:
@@ -241,7 +248,7 @@ implementation in its source:
 openkal = "0.25.0"
 
 [target.'cfg(os = "emscripten")'.dependencies]
-openkal-emscripten = "0.14.1"
+openkal-emscripten = "0.14.2"
 ```
 
 ## Licence
diff --git a/mcpp.toml b/mcpp.toml
index 47addc9..9968e14 100644
--- a/mcpp.toml
+++ b/mcpp.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 namespace   = "mcpplibs"
 name        = "openkal-emscripten"
-version     = "0.14.1"
+version     = "0.14.2"
 description = "An implementation of openkal for Emscripten, written ABOVE a C library rather than beneath one, because on this platform there is no kernel to issue calls to."
 license     = "Apache-2.0"
 
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ authors     = ["mcpplibs"]
 repo        = "https://github.com/mcpplibs/openkal-emscripten"
 
 [dependencies]
-openkal = "0.25.0"
+# Every patch release of the specification's minor version (openkal clause 8).
+openkal = "^0.25.0"
 
 [build]
 # THE DIALECT FLAGS ARE THE SAME AS EVERY OTHER IMPLEMENTATION'S AND THE REASON