diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 4d6ee4b..d575cee 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-## v1.0-beta (2021/1/..)
+## v1.0-beta (2021/1/11)
 
 - Improved: support for handling UTF8 characters both in received and in generated xml
 - Improved: support for the `$encoding` argument in `xmlrpc_decode()` and `xmlrpc_decode_request()`
 - Improved: partial support for the `$options` parameter in `xmlrpc_encode_request`, allowing UTF8 in native strings
+  via setting `'encoding' => 'UTF-8'` and `'escaping' => 'markup'`
 
 
 ## v1.0-alpha (2020/12/31)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e22a3f3..b3fb5bc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -13,10 +13,9 @@ Known differences from the original extension
 This library is not complete yet, and thus to be considered a Work in Progress.
 
 Main features missing are:
-- character set handling: at the moment utf-8 and iso-8859-1 are supported: iso-8859-1 as default, and utf8
+- character set handling: at the moment only utf-8 and iso-8859-1 are supported, iso-8859-1 as default, and utf8:
   - via  the `$encoding` argument to `xmlrpc_decode()` and `xmlrpc_decode_request()`
-  - via setting `'encoding' => 'UTF-8'` and `'escaping' => 'markup'` in the `$options` to `xmlrpc_encode_request`
-
+  - via setting `'encoding' => 'UTF-8'` and `'escaping' => 'markup'` in the `$options` argument to `xmlrpc_encode_request`
 - the `xmlrpc_parse_method_descriptions` and `xmlrpc_server_register_introspection_callback` functions exist but do nothing
 - xmlrpc server method `system.describeMethods` is not implemented
 
diff --git a/src/XmlRpc.php b/src/XmlRpc.php
index 42fea08..ec69f40 100644
--- a/src/XmlRpc.php
+++ b/src/XmlRpc.php
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ public static function xmlrpc_encode($val)
      * of them. If method name === null, create an xmlrpc response instead
      * @param string $method
      * @param array $params
-     * @param array $output_options options array
+     * @param array $output_options options array. At the moment only partial support for 'encoding' and 'escaping' is provided
      * @return string
      *
      * @todo implement parsing/usage of options: encoding, escaping.