diff --git a/docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md b/docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md
index 05d719b..624f71a 100644
--- a/docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md
+++ b/docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md
@@ -7,9 +7,7 @@ Here are some general tips for when things go wrong.
 ### Read integrity
 
 Your reads might be badly formatted or the number of reads might be too low.
-~For validating read format, the github version of Mashtree comes bundled 
-with [ROSS](https://github.com/lskatz/ross) which has a read validator.~ You can optionally download
-ROSS and run it separately.
-Then, run `friends_ross.pl --help` and follow instructions on how to check
-each read set.  
+You can optionally download [Fasten](https://github.com/lskatz/fasten) and install it separately.
+Then, run `fasten_validate --help` or `fasten_inspect --help`
+and follow instructions on how to check each read set.  
 
diff --git a/lib/Mashtree.pm b/lib/Mashtree.pm
index c08fad7..ac0f22a 100644
--- a/lib/Mashtree.pm
+++ b/lib/Mashtree.pm
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Used to mark whether a file is being read, so that Mashtree limits disk I/O
 ######
 # CONSTANTS
 
-our $VERSION = "1.4.5";
+our $VERSION = "1.4.6";
 our $MASHTREE_VERSION=$VERSION;
 our @fastqExt=qw(.fastq.gz .fastq .fq .fq.gz);
 our @fastaExt=qw(.fasta .fna .faa .mfa .fas .fsa .fa);