diff --git a/validator/nodejs/README.md b/validator/nodejs/README.md
index 68fd5cdb62dae..0b0943f6f0358 100644
--- a/validator/nodejs/README.md
+++ b/validator/nodejs/README.md
@@ -54,3 +54,6 @@ As expected, this emits errors because the provided string in the example, `<htm
 
 ### 1.0.12
 * Added support for --user-agent option
+
+### 1.0.13
+* Added newInstance method, a simple API that's not async.
diff --git a/validator/nodejs/index.js b/validator/nodejs/index.js
index e6f8c8876a227..0ea0b44557fd0 100755
--- a/validator/nodejs/index.js
+++ b/validator/nodejs/index.js
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ var url = require('url');
 var util = require('util');
 var vm = require('vm');
 
-var VERSION = '0.1.0';
 var DEFAULT_USER_AGENT = 'amphtml-validator';
 
 /**
@@ -381,7 +380,7 @@ function logValidationResult(filename, validationResult, color) {
  * Main entry point into the command line tool.
  */
 function main() {
-  program.version(VERSION)
+  program
       .usage(
           '[options] <fileOrUrlOrMinus...>\n\n' +
           '  Validates the files or urls provided as arguments. If "-" is ' +
diff --git a/validator/nodejs/package.json b/validator/nodejs/package.json
index 4cbadd74b6714..4bcf104bda0ac 100644
--- a/validator/nodejs/package.json
+++ b/validator/nodejs/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "amphtml-validator",
-  "version": "1.0.12",
+  "version": "1.0.13",
   "description": "Validator for AMP HTML (www.ampproject.org)",
   "engines": {
     "node": ">=0.10.25"