diff --git a/app/src/processing/app/Base.java b/app/src/processing/app/Base.java
index 37b34443c..6794a2f4d 100644
--- a/app/src/processing/app/Base.java
+++ b/app/src/processing/app/Base.java
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ import static processing.app.I18n._;
  * files and images, etc) that comes from that.
  */
 public class Base {
-  public static final int REVISION = 153;
+  public static final int REVISION = 154;
   /** This might be replaced by main() if there's a lib/version.txt file. */
-  static String VERSION_NAME = "0153";
+  static String VERSION_NAME = "0154";
   /** Set true if this a proper release rather than a numbered revision. */
   static public boolean RELEASE = false;
 
diff --git a/build/shared/revisions.txt b/build/shared/revisions.txt
index 4f5c7e7a5..0dd9cc426 100644
--- a/build/shared/revisions.txt
+++ b/build/shared/revisions.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ ARDUINO 1.5.4 BETA
 
 [libraries]
 * sam: fixed wrong SPI initialization (noblepepper)
+* updated all instances of Adafruit_GFX to the latest version
 
 ARDUINO 1.5.3 BETA 2013.08.30
 
diff --git a/hardware/arduino/avr/platform.txt b/hardware/arduino/avr/platform.txt
index 5a12fd966..8deb40cea 100644
--- a/hardware/arduino/avr/platform.txt
+++ b/hardware/arduino/avr/platform.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/wiki/Arduino-IDE-1.5---3rd-party-Hardware-specification
 
 name=Arduino AVR Boards
-version=1.5.3
+version=1.5.4
 
 # AVR compile variables
 # --------------------- 
diff --git a/hardware/arduino/sam/platform.txt b/hardware/arduino/sam/platform.txt
index 71bd742b1..5c5ffd272 100644
--- a/hardware/arduino/sam/platform.txt
+++ b/hardware/arduino/sam/platform.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/wiki/Arduino-IDE-1.5---3rd-party-Hardware-specification
 
 name=Arduino ARM (32-bits) Boards
-version=1.5.3
+version=1.5.4
 
 # SAM3 compile variables
 # ----------------------