diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 87a263a..9d2c4a7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,13 @@ Unofficial Python implementation for [CloudEvents](https://cloudevents.io/) v1.0
 Check out the [CloudEvents spec](https://github.com/cloudevents/spec/blob/v1.0/spec.md).
 
 This package has no dependencies beyond the Python standard library with the base install.
-Optionally depends on the `avro` package for Avro encode/decode functionality. 
+Optionally depends on the `avro` package for Avro encode/decode functionality.
+
+## News
+
+### 0.2.2 - (*2020-09-29*)
+
+* First public release. 
 
 ## Install
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a81e6b8..d761fef 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='spce',
-    version='0.2.1',
+    version='0.2.2',
     packages=['spce'],
     url='https://github.com/scaleplandev/spce-python',
     license='Apache 2.0',
diff --git a/spce/json.py b/spce/json.py
index d3f0974..5a151de 100644
--- a/spce/json.py
+++ b/spce/json.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def encode(cls, event: CloudEvent):
                 kvs.append('"%s":%s' % (attr, encoder.encode(value)))
         if event._data:
             if event._has_binary_data:
-                kvs.append('"data_b64":%s' % encoder.encode(b64encode(event._data).decode()))
+                kvs.append('"data_base64":%s' % encoder.encode(b64encode(event._data).decode()))
             else:
                 kvs.append('"data":%s' % encoder.encode(event._data))
         return "{%s}" % ",".join(kvs)
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ def encode(cls, event: CloudEvent):
     @classmethod
     def decode(cls, text: str) -> CloudEvent:
         d = json.loads(text)
-        if "data_b64" in d:
-            d["data"] = b64decode(d["data_b64"])
-            del d["data_b64"]
+        if "data_base64" in d:
+            d["data"] = b64decode(d["data_base64"])
+            del d["data_base64"]
 
         return CloudEvent(**d)
diff --git a/tests/json_test.py b/tests/json_test.py
index 6081abf..84089e6 100644
--- a/tests/json_test.py
+++ b/tests/json_test.py
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ def test_encode_binary_data(self):
              "id": "1000",
              "specversion": "1.0",
              "datacontenttype": "application/octet-stream",
-             "data_b64": "AQIDBA=="
+             "data_base64": "AQIDBA=="
             }
         '''
         self.assertEqual(json.loads(target), json.loads(encoded))
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ def test_decode_binary_data(self):
              "id": "1000",
              "specversion": "1.0",
              "datacontenttype": "application/octet-stream",
-             "data_b64": "AQIDBA=="
+             "data_base64": "AQIDBA=="
             }
         '''
         target = CloudEvent(