diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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--- a/CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# 0.19.0
+* add an `getEntity(world, components)` function for a bit of syntax sugar.
+
+
 # 0.18.4
 * [`180ff077d7e`]](https://github.com/mreinstein/ecs/commit/180ff077d7e1c966ede47204ef69113c2102dbf3) fix some really terrible crashing bugs 
 * add unit tests to cover all of those discovered cases
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "ecs",
-  "version": "0.18.4",
+  "version": "0.19.0",
   "description": "data oriented, functional entity component system",
   "main": "ecs.js",
   "types": "types/ecs.d.ts",