diff --git a/Manifest.toml b/Manifest.toml
index e1c711455..472b1240d 100755
--- a/Manifest.toml
+++ b/Manifest.toml
@@ -89,10 +89,10 @@ deps = ["Markdown"]
 uuid = "b77e0a4c-d291-57a0-90e8-8db25a27a240"
 
 [[JSON]]
-deps = ["Dates", "Distributed", "Mmap", "Sockets", "Test", "Unicode"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "1f7a25b53ec67f5e9422f1f551ee216503f4a0fa"
+deps = ["Dates", "Mmap", "Parsers", "Unicode"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "b34d7cef7b337321e97d22242c3c2b91f476748e"
 uuid = "682c06a0-de6a-54ab-a142-c8b1cf79cde6"
-version = "0.20.0"
+version = "0.21.0"
 
 [[JuliaInterpreter]]
 deps = ["CodeTracking", "InteractiveUtils", "Random", "UUIDs"]
@@ -162,6 +162,12 @@ git-tree-sha1 = "c4c13474d23c60d20a67b217f1d7f22a40edf8f1"
 uuid = "bac558e1-5e72-5ebc-8fee-abe8a469f55d"
 version = "1.1.0"
 
+[[Parsers]]
+deps = ["Dates", "Test"]
+git-tree-sha1 = "db2b35dedab3c0e46dc15996d170af07a5ab91c9"
+uuid = "69de0a69-1ddd-5017-9359-2bf0b02dc9f0"
+version = "0.3.6"
+
 [[Pkg]]
 deps = ["Dates", "LibGit2", "Markdown", "Printf", "REPL", "Random", "SHA", "UUIDs"]
 uuid = "44cfe95a-1eb2-52ea-b672-e2afdf69b78f"
diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 223747c36..2c21352c4 100755
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "Genie"
 uuid = "c43c736e-a2d1-11e8-161f-af95117fbd1e"
 authors = ["Adrian Salceanu <e@essenciary.com>"]
-version = "0.9.7"
+version = "0.9.8"
 
 [deps]
 ArgParse = "c7e460c6-2fb9-53a9-8c5b-16f535851c63"
diff --git a/src/Configuration.jl b/src/Configuration.jl
index 31e9eb652..6948f5379 100755
--- a/src/Configuration.jl
+++ b/src/Configuration.jl
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Core genie configuration / settings functionality.
 """
 module Configuration
 
-const GENIE_VERSION = v"0.9.7"
+const GENIE_VERSION = v"0.9.8"
 
 using Genie, YAML
 
diff --git a/src/FileTemplates.jl b/src/FileTemplates.jl
index 426dffad3..38185986c 100755
--- a/src/FileTemplates.jl
+++ b/src/FileTemplates.jl
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ function newchannel(channel_name::String) :: String
   """
   module $(channel_name)Channel
 
-  using Genie.WebChannels, Genie.Router
+  using Genie.WebChannels, Genie.Router, Genie.Helpers
 
 
   function subscribe()
diff --git a/src/WebChannels.jl b/src/WebChannels.jl
index 4b27f1dcc..eb2b2464b 100755
--- a/src/WebChannels.jl
+++ b/src/WebChannels.jl
@@ -257,19 +257,17 @@ function message(channel::ChannelName, msg::String, payload::Union{Dict,Nothing}
 end
 
 
-"""
-Send message `msg` to `client`.
-"""
-function message(client::ChannelClient, msg::String) :: Int
-  write(client.client, msg)
-end
-
-
 """
 Writes `msg` to web socket for `client`.
 """
+function message(ws::HTTP.WebSockets.WebSocket, msg::String) :: Int
+  write(ws, msg)
+end
 function message(client::ClientId, msg::String) :: Int
-  write(CLIENTS[client].client, msg)
+  message(CLIENTS[client].client, msg)
+end
+function message(client::ChannelClient, msg::String) :: Int
+  message(client.client, msg)
 end
 
 end