diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
deleted file mode 100644
index 469901e1a403ff6dfaffcb2877e7ea9a86aa4275..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-- gh-95 Bump MongoDB version to 2.9.0 (allanbank)
-- gh-67 Use checkstyle (m1ch1)
-- gh-76 Implemented OrientDB client (lvca)
-- gh-88 YCSB client for Amazon DynamoDB (jananin)
-- gh-89 Patch for YCSB Cassandra Client version 1.0.6 (jananin)
-- gh-93 New ElasticSearch Database Implementation (saden1)
-- gh-97 Bug fixes in dynamodb plugin (jananin)
-
-0.1.4 - 2/22/12 
-
-- Fixes for Cassandra 0.7 client (tjake)
-- New generator FileGenerator (nono)
-- Fixes for MongoDB (nono)
-- Fixes for Voldemort (nono)
-- JDBC client (sudiptodas)
-- HotspotIntegerGenerator (sudiptodas)	
-- Optimizing cassandra7 (joaquincasares)
-- Mysql key fix (joaquincasares)
-- Added a db plugin for Infinispan (maniksurtani)
-- gh-31 Support to stop benchmark after a maximum specified elapsed time. (sudiptodas)
-- gh-35 Cassandra0.8 support (joaquincasares)
-- gh-30 IllegalArgumentException with MongoDB (m1ch1)
-- gh-27 MongoDbClient was not working with non localhost URLs (arunxarun)
-- gh-29 Add simple sharding capabilities for JDBC driver (kibab)
-- gh-40 Merge Redis database interface layer (lehmannro)
-- gh-42 Response latencies are measured in microseconds (mikewied)
-- gh-43 Variable length fields (sears)
-- gh-44 Constant occupancy workload (sears)
-- gh-45 Modify DB API for efficient large object support (sears)
-- gh-46 Fixed typo in RedisClient (Zlender)
-- gh-49 Build fix (sears)
-- gh-50 Switch unordered key generation from FNV32 to FNV64 (sears)
-- gh-51 Improved Random Number Generation Performance and add Exponential distribution support (sears)
-- gh-52 Mongo db fix (sears)
-- gh-54 Add mapkeeper driver (m1ch1)
-- gh-57 voldemort - enable nio connector (akkumar)
-- gh-58 benchmarking with hbase 0.90.5 (akkumar)
-- gh-55 VMware vFabric GemFire (sbawaska)
-- gh-59 Cassandra 1.0.6 (akkumar)
-- gh-62 Oracle NoSQL Database Client (y-namiki)
-- gh-64 Mavenisation of YCSB with a (tar ball) distribution packager (hariprasad-k)
-- gh-65 Patch for improving the MongoDB Client (singhsiddharth)
-
-0.1.3 - 10/26/10
-
-= Voldemort binding (rsumbaly)
-= HBase client improvements (ryanobjc)
-= Fixes to Cassandra 0.7 binding (johanoskarsson, nickmbailey)
-= Added an interface for exporting the measurements and a JSON implementation. It can write to both stdout and to a file (johanoskarsson)
--Other minor fixes (brianfrankcooper)
-
-0.1.2 - 5/12/10
-
-- MongoDB binding (ypai)
-- Cassandra 0.7 binding (johanoskarsson)
-- Simple command line interface (brianfrankcooper)
-- Faster string generation (tlipcon)
-- Avoid Bytes conversion in HBaseClient (tlipcon)
-
-0.1.1 - 4/25/10
-
-- Compiles under 1.5
-- Fixes doc and HBaseClient bugs
-
-0.1.0 - 4/23/10 
-
-- Initial open source release
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bccf0d187107bc66dbb377fed02ade5ec4a14bf6..a76d90895cb623a355610335d87109b2c7569f70 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Getting Started
 1. Download the latest release of YCSB:
 
     ```sh
-    wget https://github.com/downloads/brianfrankcooper/YCSB/ycsb-0.1.4.tar.gz
+    curl -O https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB/releases/download/0.1.4/ycsb-0.1.4.tar.gz
     tar xfvz ycsb-0.1.4.tar.gz
     cd ycsb-0.1.4
     ```
diff --git a/bin/ycsb b/bin/ycsb
index d28c3f8040949b2ee69bb87f0c2c6d32c16e6c40..7cb3c2449226ff7af4ba4e04fc692434e3de5d74 100755
--- a/bin/ycsb
+++ b/bin/ycsb
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ def find_jars(dir, database):
 
 def get_ycsb_home():
     dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]))
-    while "CHANGELOG" not in os.listdir(dir):
+    while "LICENSE.txt" not in os.listdir(dir):
         dir = os.path.join(dir, os.path.pardir)
     return os.path.abspath(dir)
 
diff --git a/binding-parent/datastore-specific-descriptor/src/main/resources/assemblies/datastore-specific-assembly.xml b/binding-parent/datastore-specific-descriptor/src/main/resources/assemblies/datastore-specific-assembly.xml
index 9939c805b4dce664e93ff1f609654c241767bc5b..0d667dffb9e691e68807209a3a74477740eea6c7 100644
--- a/binding-parent/datastore-specific-descriptor/src/main/resources/assemblies/datastore-specific-assembly.xml
+++ b/binding-parent/datastore-specific-descriptor/src/main/resources/assemblies/datastore-specific-assembly.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
       <outputDirectory></outputDirectory>
       <fileMode>0644</fileMode>
       <includes>
-        <include>CHANGELOG</include>
         <include>LICENSE.txt</include>
         <include>NOTICE.txt</include>
       </includes>
diff --git a/distribution/src/main/assembly/distribution.xml b/distribution/src/main/assembly/distribution.xml
index e75302a87b600dbae486211708be17f01a6b73d6..75eb009700b68a1b3376aceaa18f9618846c08c6 100644
--- a/distribution/src/main/assembly/distribution.xml
+++ b/distribution/src/main/assembly/distribution.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
       <fileMode>0644</fileMode>
       <includes>
         <include>README</include>
-        <include>CHANGELOG</include>
         <include>LICENSE.txt</include>
         <include>NOTICE.txt</include>
       </includes>