diff --git a/ChangeLog.txt b/ChangeLog.txt
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--- a/ChangeLog.txt
+++ b/ChangeLog.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,21 @@ JSONlab ChangeLog (key features marked by *):
 
 == JSONlab 2.9.8 (codename: Micronus Prime - beta), FangQ <q.fang (at) neu.edu> ==
 
+ 2024-03-28*[b39c374] [feat] add json2couch from jbids toolbox
+ 2024-03-28 [6da4f2b] [doc] remove the unrelated npm package.json
+ 2024-03-28 [36b605d] [doc] update documentation
+ 2024-03-27*[2e43586] [feat] merge nii/jnii/hdf5/tsv reading functions self-contained
+ 2024-03-27 [b482c8f] [test] pass all tests on matlab R2010b
+ 2024-03-27 [2008934] [doc] additional documentations on decompression functions
+ 2024-03-27 [0a582fb] [doc] add documentations for jsonpath, jsoncache, jdlink, and maxlinklevel
+ 2024-03-27 [5dba1de] [bug] .. searches deep level of struct,make jdlink work for Octave 4.2 and 5.2
+ 2024-03-27*[fea481e] [doc] add line-by-line comment on examples, add jsonset/jsonget
+ 2024-03-26*[e1d386d] [feat] support saving dictionary to json and bjdata
+ 2024-03-26 [dfc744b] [feat] support caching data from any URL using hash, add NO_ZMAT flag
+ 2024-03-24 [22d297e] [doc] fix README.rst formatting issues
+ 2024-03-24 [36fef2c] [bug] fix missing quotes for function names
+ 2024-03-24 [7e27db5] [doc] update documentation, preparing for v2.9.8 release
+ 2024-03-24 [1227a0b] [format] reformat
  2024-03-24 [67f30ca] [feat] support using \. or [] in JSONPath to escape dots in key names
  2024-03-24 [ee830cd] [bug] fix error_pos error when giving a non-existant input file
  2024-03-24 [d69686d] [feat] add jdlink to dynamically download and cache linked data
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 0ac94bc..d096687 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ new features include
 8. automatically switch from ``struct`` to ``containers.Map`` when encoded key-length exceeds 63
 9. provide fall-back zlib/gzip compression/decompression function (``octavezmat``) on Octave when ZMat is not installed
 10. include built-in ``.nii/.nii.gz/.jnii/.h5/.snirf/.tsv/.csv`` parsers to allow loadjd.m to read wide range of files
+11. include ``json2couch`` from jbids (https://github.com/NeuroJSON/jbids) to allow uploading json files to CouchDB server
 
 There have been many major updates added to this release since the previous 
 release v2.0 in June 2020. A list of the major changes are summarized below
@@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ new interface functions ``savejd/loadjd``, and options to use MATLAB/Octave buil
 ``jsonencode/jsondecode`` functions. The ``octave-jsonlab`` package has also been
 included in the official distributions of Debian Bullseye and Ubuntu 21.04 or newer.
 
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+- 2024-03-28 [b39c374] [feat] add json2couch from jbids toolbox
 - 2024-03-27*[2e43586] [feat] merge ``nii/jnii/hdf5/tsv`` reading functions self-contained
 - 2024-03-27 [b482c8f] [test] pass all tests on matlab R2010b
 - 2024-03-27 [2008934] [doc] additional documentations on decompression functions