diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ae201d4..59c9dd3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ All notable changes are recorded here. Versions follow
 The 0.1.0 entry describes what the library is rather than what changed, since
 there was nothing to have changed from. Everything above it is ordinary.
 
-## Unreleased
+## 0.14.1 — 2026-10-04
 
 ### Fixed
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d25397d..18eecdd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -41,24 +41,20 @@ only writer.
 The usual shape is a message log in one system and an analytical store in another, with a
 pipeline extracting between them — two copies of every row and a job that keeps them in
 step. There is no extraction step here and no second copy. A litelink log **is** an Iceberg
-table, so the Parquet your messages were appended to is the Parquet an analytical engine
+table, so the log your messages were appended to is the table an analytical engine
 reads:
 
 ```python
 import duckdb
-import litelink
 import streamcast
 
 # Published through streamcast, live.
 async with streamcast.publish(uri) as producer:
     await producer.send({"event_ts": 1790038800123456, "price": 85565.0, "side": 1})
 
-# The same bytes as a table, on the box that holds the log.
-with litelink.open("data", "trades", read_only=True) as log:
-    log.sql("SELECT count(*), max(price) FROM log WHERE side = 1").read_all()
-
-# Or from anywhere, from the stream's published tables: every log it has
-# been through, as of a point, with no server involved.
+# The same rows as a table, from anywhere, from the stream's published
+# tables: every log it has been through, as of a point, with no server
+# involved.
 async with await streamcast.Stream.snapshot(
     "s3://bucket/prefix/trades.metadata.json"
 ) as snapshot:
@@ -73,8 +69,8 @@ duckdb.sql("""
 ```
 
 Rows land in a SQLite buffer first and seal into Parquet behind it, so the newest messages
-are in the buffer and the rest are columnar — `log.sql` reads across both, and a reader
-anywhere else reads what the log has published. That is one store with tiers, not a
+are in the buffer and the rest are columnar — a snapshot given `broker=` reads across
+both, and a reader anywhere else reads what the log has published. That is one store with tiers, not a
 transactional copy and an analytical copy that have to be reconciled.
 
 The tiering, the published-table layout, consistency guarantees, and costs are
@@ -254,12 +250,13 @@ should not be. `Maintain(dedicated=("trades",))` gives a named log a set of its
 `Stream.new` creates or opens the log; `Stream(log=handle)` takes one you opened yourself
 and does no I/O. `streamcast.to_arrow(SCHEMA)` is the `pa.schema` if you want it.
 
-What it captures is a table, queryable without streamcast:
+What it captures is a table, queried from its published tables:
 
 ```python
-log.sql("SELECT count(*), max(price), sum(amount) FROM log").read_all()
-log.scan(columns=["litelink_offset", "price"], where="side = 1")   # prunes on statistics
-log.sql("SELECT max(streamcast_ts - event_ts) FROM log").read_all()   # feed latency, us
+uri = stream.metadata_uri
+await streamcast.Stream.sql(uri, "SELECT count(*), max(price), sum(amount) FROM log")
+await streamcast.Stream.scan(uri, columns=["litelink_offset", "price"], where="side = 1")
+await streamcast.Stream.sql(uri, "SELECT max(streamcast_ts - event_ts) FROM log")   # feed latency, us
 ```
 
 The table has two columns you did not declare. `litelink_offset` is the offset every frame
@@ -809,11 +806,11 @@ Offsets are per server and are not translated between hops.
 
 ## What it is not
 
-- **Not a message broker.** No topics beyond a name, no consumer groups, and no consumer
+- **Not a message queue.** No topics beyond a name, no consumer groups, and no consumer
   acknowledgements — where a subscriber has got to is its own cursor, not state the server
   keeps. A publisher does get an ack, the offset once the row is durable; nothing tracks
   what a subscriber has consumed. A subscriber needing at-least-once with server-side acks
-  wants a queue.
+  wants one.
 - **Not tuned for high fan-out across a WAN.** `compression` costs CPU per subscriber
   while the encode is shared, so it defaults off — see the API section. Turn it on for
   few subscribers over a WAN.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5ad4aed..f562d70 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "streamcast"
-version = "0.14.0"
+version = "0.14.1"
 description = "A JSON WebSocket pubsub framework for structured data. Every message lands in an Iceberg table: no ETL, no second copy."
 readme = "README.md"
 authors = [
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 5ecae1e..3068d7a 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -1970,7 +1970,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "streamcast"
-version = "0.14.0"
+version = "0.14.1"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "litelink" },