diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 736bbf7..d2aca90 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 # News
 
-## v1.4.1 - dev
+## v1.4.1 - 2024-05-03
 
+
+- Permit stores `put!` methods to cast the value being placed to the type appropriate for the given store.
 - Added examples to the documentation that were lost around the time of the rewrite for v0.5 in 2018.
 
 ## v1.4.0 - 2023-08-07
diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index ce7bb46..4db9c5d 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ license = "MIT"
 desc = "A discrete event process oriented simulation framework."
 authors = ["Ben Lauwens and SimJulia and ConcurrentSim contributors"]
 repo = "https://github.com/JuliaDynamics/ConcurrentSim.jl.git"
-version = "1.4.0"
+version = "1.4.1"
 
 [deps]
 DataStructures = "864edb3b-99cc-5e75-8d2d-829cb0a9cfe8"
diff --git a/src/resources/stores.jl b/src/resources/stores.jl
index 67e86fd..5e7aa23 100755
--- a/src/resources/stores.jl
+++ b/src/resources/stores.jl
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ function put!(sto::Store{N, T}, item::N; priority=zero(T)) where {N, T<:Number}
   put_ev
 end
 
+put!(sto::Store{N, T}, item; priority=zero(T)) where {N, T<:Number} = put!(sto, convert(N, item); priority)
+
 get_any_item(::N) where N = true
 
 function get(sto::Store{N, T, D}, filter::Function=get_any_item; priority=zero(T)) where {N, T<:Number, D}
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 8d7ec0a..bd93b9f 100755
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ println("Starting tests with $(Threads.nthreads()) threads out of `Sys.CPU_THREA
 @doset "resources_containers"
 @doset "resources_containers_deprecated"
 @doset "resources_stores"
+@doset "resources_stores_cast"
 @doset "resources_stores_deprecated"
 @doset "resources_fancy_stores"
 @doset "resource_priorities"
diff --git a/test/test_resources_stores_cast.jl b/test/test_resources_stores_cast.jl
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..6396f38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_resources_stores_cast.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+using ConcurrentSim
+using ResumableFunctions
+using Test
+
+@resumable function producer(env, queue)
+    for item in [1,2,3,4]
+        @info "putting $item at time $(now(env))"
+        put!(queue, item)
+        @yield timeout(env, 2)
+    end
+end
+@resumable function consumer(env, queue)
+    @yield timeout(env, 5)
+    while true
+        t = @yield take!(queue)
+        @test isa(t, Float64)
+        @info "taking $(t) at time $(now(env))"
+    end
+end
+
+function runsim(storeconstructor)
+    sim = Simulation()
+    queue = storeconstructor(sim)
+    @process producer(sim, queue)
+    @process consumer(sim, queue)
+    run(sim, 30)
+end
+
+runsim(sim->DelayQueue{Float64}(sim, 10))
+runsim(sim->QueueStore{Float64}(sim))
+runsim(sim->Store{Float64}(sim))
+
+# formatting was different in older versions
+VERSION > v"1.7" && @test_throws "MethodError: Cannot `convert`" runsim(sim->Store{Symbol}(sim))