diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index bcd98fe0..48067e20 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 Changes
 -------
 
+3.2.3
+~~~~~
+
+- fixes https://github.com/clld/clld/issues/122
+
+
 3.2.2
 ~~~~~
 
diff --git a/clld/__init__.py b/clld/__init__.py
index 9fba138c..c74c6e4f 100644
--- a/clld/__init__.py
+++ b/clld/__init__.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 from clld import interfaces
 
 
-__version__ = "3.2.2"
+__version__ = "3.2.3"
 
 
 class Resource(namedtuple('Resource', 'name model interface with_index with_rdfdump')):
diff --git a/clld/tests/test_web_adapters_csv.py b/clld/tests/test_web_adapters_csv.py
index 87a57f99..c0f2e920 100644
--- a/clld/tests/test_web_adapters_csv.py
+++ b/clld/tests/test_web_adapters_csv.py
@@ -22,11 +22,17 @@ def test_CsvwJsonAdapter(self):
         from clld.web.adapters.csv import CsvmJsonAdapter
 
         adapter = CsvmJsonAdapter(None)
-        res = adapter.render(
-            datatables.Languages(self.env['request'], Language), self.env['request'])
-        self.assertIn('tableSchema', json.loads(res))
+        res = json.loads(adapter.render(
+            datatables.Languages(self.env['request'], Language), self.env['request']))
+        self.assertNotEqual(res['tableSchema']['columns'], [])
+
         res = adapter.render(
             datatables.Valuesets(self.env['request'], ValueSet), self.env['request'])
         self.assertIn('foreignKeys', json.loads(res)['tableSchema'])
         adapter.render_to_response(
             datatables.Valuesets(self.env['request'], ValueSet), self.env['request'])
+
+        self._set_request_property('params', {'sSearch_0': 'xyz'})
+        res = json.loads(adapter.render(
+            datatables.Languages(self.env['request'], Language), self.env['request']))
+        self.assertEqual(res['tableSchema']['columns'], [])
diff --git a/clld/web/adapters/csv.py b/clld/web/adapters/csv.py
index 9afe7acc..9cd5390d 100644
--- a/clld/web/adapters/csv.py
+++ b/clld/web/adapters/csv.py
@@ -129,10 +129,11 @@ def csvm_doc(cls, url, req, cols):
 
     def render(self, ctx, req):
         item = ctx.get_query(limit=1).first()
+        fields = item.csv_head() if item else []
         cls = inspect(item).class_ if item else None
         doc = self.csvm_doc(
             req.url.replace('.csv-metadata.json', '.csv'),
             req,
-            [(field, getattr(cls, field, None)) for field in item.csv_head()])
+            [(field, getattr(cls, field, None)) for field in fields])
         doc["dc:title"] = "{0} - {1}".format(req.dataset.name, ctx)
         return pyramid_render('json', doc, request=req)
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 99b9b521..06d1c8d9 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -51,10 +51,10 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '3.2.2'
+release = '3.2.3'
 
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '3.2.2'
+version = '3.2.3'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 74eeda7b..a0a01e8a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='clld',
-    version='3.2.2',
+    version='3.2.3',
     description=(
         'Python library supporting the development of cross-linguistic databases'),
     long_description=README,