diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b27b03f9..36d097b5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,16 +2,23 @@
 
 ## [0.7.0] 2023-10-05
 
-- Use QuiltCore 0.1.0 instead of Python
+- Officially QuiltCore 0.1.0 instead of Python
 
 ## [0.6.0] 2023-10-03
 
+(interim release still using Python)
+
 - Stop overwriting README.md (use README_NF_QUILT.md instead)
   - improve formatting
 - Smarter quilt_summarize.json
   - Top level (only): md, html, pdf, csv, tsv
   - multiqc sub-folder HTML
 
+## [0.5.0] 2023-09-04
+
+- Switch to quiltcore-java [NOTE: this pre-release does NOT check workflows]
+- Do not pre-install packages (only install before write)
+
 ## [0.4.5] 2023-08-23
 
 - fix metadata in README.md
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index eaf06eb6..6c173b02 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,14 +6,15 @@ NextFlow plugin for reading and writing Quilt packages as a FileSystem
 developed by [Quilt Data](https://quiltdata.com/) that enables you read and write directly
 to Quilt packages using `quilt+s3` URIs wherever your NextFlow pipeline currently use `s3` URIs.
 
-Inspired by the original [`nf-quilt`](https://github.com/nextflow-io/nf-quilt) plugin (v0.2.0) developed by Seqera labs
+Inspired by the original [`nf-quilt`](https://github.com/nextflow-io/nf-quilt) plugin (v0.2.0) developed by Seqera labs.
 
 ## I. Using the nf-quilt plugin in Production
 
 This plugin allows your existing pipelines, without modification,
 to read and write versioned Quilt packages stored on Amazon S3.
 
-Use the following four steps to configure NextFlow Tower or your command-line environment.
+Use the following three steps to configure NextFlow Tower or your command-line environment.
+[Note: versions 0.7.0 and later no longer require the `quilt3` Python client.]
 
 1. Enable the `nf-quilt` plugin