diff --git a/CMakeModules/Version.cmake b/CMakeModules/Version.cmake
index da010809..c7c5c6f2 100644
--- a/CMakeModules/Version.cmake
+++ b/CMakeModules/Version.cmake
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ IF("${CMAKE_VERSION}" VERSION_GREATER "3.1" OR "${CMAKE_VERSION}" VERSION_EQUAL
     CMAKE_POLICY(SET CMP0054 OLD)
 ENDIF()
 
-SET(FG_VERSION_MAJOR "0")
-SET(FG_VERSION_MINOR "9")
-SET(FG_VERSION_PATCH "2")
+SET(FG_VERSION_MAJOR "1")
+SET(FG_VERSION_MINOR "0")
+SET(FG_VERSION_PATCH "0")
 
 SET(FG_VERSION "${FG_VERSION_MAJOR}.${FG_VERSION_MINOR}.${FG_VERSION_PATCH}")
 SET(FG_API_VERSION_CURRENT ${FG_VERSION_MAJOR}${FG_VERSION_MINOR})
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5c9bd9c0..a9607239 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Forge - High Performance Visualizations
 
 [![Join the chat at https://gitter.im/arrayfire/forge](https://badges.gitter.im/Join%20Chat.svg)](https://gitter.im/arrayfire/forge?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge)
 
-A prototype of the OpenGL interop library that can be used with ArrayFire. The goal of **Forge** is to provide high performance OpenGL visualizations for C/C++ applications that use CUDA/OpenCL. Forge uses OpenGL >=3.3 forward compatible contexts, so please make sure you have capable hardware before trying it out.
+An OpenGL interop library that can be used with ArrayFire or any other application using CUDA or OpenCL compute backend. The goal of **Forge** is to provide high performance OpenGL visualizations for C/C++ applications that use CUDA/OpenCL. Forge uses OpenGL >=3.3 forward compatible contexts, so please make sure you have capable hardware before trying it out.
 
 ## Documentation
 
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ You can find the most recent and updated documentation [here](http://arrayfire.o
 * [glbinding](https://github.com/cginternals/glbinding)
 * [GLFW](http://www.glfw.org/), optionally you can build with [SDL2](https://www.libsdl.org/) alternative too.
 * [freetype](http://www.freetype.org/)
+* [FreeImage](http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/) - optional. Packages should ideally turn this
+  option ON.
 * On `Linux` and `OS X`, [fontconfig](http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig/) is required.
 
 Above dependencies are available through package managers on most of the Unix/Linux based distributions. We have provided an option in `CMake` for `Forge` to build it's own internal `freetype` version if you choose to not install it on your machine.
diff --git a/docs/pages/README.md b/docs/pages/README.md
index 33001dcd..15d3088a 100644
--- a/docs/pages/README.md
+++ b/docs/pages/README.md
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ applications that use CUDA/OpenCL.
 * [glbinding](https://github.com/cginternals/glbinding)
 * [GLFW](http://www.glfw.org/)
 * [freetype](http://www.freetype.org/)
-* [FreeImage](http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/)
+* [FreeImage](http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/) - optional. Packages should ideally turn this
+  option ON.
 * On `Linux` and `OS X`, [fontconfig](http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig/) is required.
 
 Above dependecies are available through package managers on most of the