diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.txt b/RELEASE_NOTES.txt
index f1331fa4..17e77943 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.txt
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+# v0.9.14
+
+- add versioning to indexes
+- option to clear revisions array in node
+- fix duplicate additions to revision array
+- explicit check for bson document max size upon save, return meaningful error
+
 # v0.9.13
 
 - added option to copy attributes when doing node copy
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 62ea2590..6d44d227 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.9.13
+0.9.14
diff --git a/shock-server/node/db.go b/shock-server/node/db.go
index 01f62087..fe1f28cb 100644
--- a/shock-server/node/db.go
+++ b/shock-server/node/db.go
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 )
 
+// mongodb has hard limit of 16 MB docuemnt size
+var DocumentMaxByte = 16777216
+
 // Initialize creates a copy of the mongodb connection and then uses that connection to
 // create the Nodes collection in mongodb. Then, it ensures that there is a unique index
 // on the id key in this collection, creating the index if necessary.
diff --git a/shock-server/node/node.go b/shock-server/node/node.go
index 62812c77..4973d17c 100644
--- a/shock-server/node/node.go
+++ b/shock-server/node/node.go
@@ -376,6 +376,13 @@ func (node *Node) RemoveExpiration() (err error) {
 	return
 }
 
+func (node *Node) ClearRevisions() (err error) {
+	// empty the revisions array
+	node.Revisions = nil
+	err = node.Save()
+	return
+}
+
 func (node *Node) SetAttributes(attr FormFile) (err error) {
 	defer attr.Remove()
 	attributes, err := ioutil.ReadFile(attr.Path)
diff --git a/shock-server/node/update.go b/shock-server/node/update.go
index e2f9dd2c..ec900f03 100644
--- a/shock-server/node/update.go
+++ b/shock-server/node/update.go
@@ -394,6 +394,13 @@ func (node *Node) Update(params map[string]string, files FormFiles) (err error)
 		}
 	}
 
+	// clear node revisions
+	if _, hasClearRevisions := params["clear_revisions"]; hasClearRevisions {
+		if err = node.ClearRevisions(); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+
 	// handle part file / we do a node level lock here
 	if hasPartsFile {
 		if node.HasFile() {
@@ -438,8 +445,11 @@ func (node *Node) Update(params map[string]string, files FormFiles) (err error)
 }
 
 func (node *Node) Save() (err error) {
+	// update versions
+	previousVersion := node.Version
 	node.UpdateVersion()
-	if len(node.Revisions) == 0 || node.Revisions[len(node.Revisions)-1].Version != node.Version {
+	// only add to revisions if not new and has changed
+	if previousVersion != "" && previousVersion != node.Version {
 		n := Node{node.Id, node.Version, node.File, node.Attributes, node.Indexes, node.Acl, node.VersionParts, node.Tags, nil, node.Linkages, node.CreatedOn, node.LastModified, node.Expiration, node.Type, node.Subset, node.Parts}
 		node.Revisions = append(node.Revisions, n)
 	}
@@ -448,17 +458,21 @@ func (node *Node) Save() (err error) {
 	} else {
 		node.LastModified = time.Now()
 	}
-
-	bsonPath := fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s.bson", node.Path(), node.Id)
-	os.Remove(bsonPath)
+	// get bson, test size and print
 	nbson, err := bson.Marshal(node)
 	if err != nil {
 		return
 	}
+	if len(nbson) >= DocumentMaxByte {
+		return errors.New(fmt.Sprintf("bson document size is greater than limit of %d bytes", DocumentMaxByte))
+	}
+	bsonPath := fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s.bson", node.Path(), node.Id)
+	os.Remove(bsonPath)
 	err = ioutil.WriteFile(bsonPath, nbson, 0644)
 	if err != nil {
 		return
 	}
+	// save node to mongodb
 	err = dbUpsert(node)
 	if err != nil {
 		return
@@ -470,7 +484,7 @@ func (node *Node) UpdateVersion() (err error) {
 	parts := make(map[string]string)
 	h := md5.New()
 	version := node.Id
-	for name, value := range map[string]interface{}{"file_ver": node.File, "attributes_ver": node.Attributes, "acl_ver": node.Acl} {
+	for name, value := range map[string]interface{}{"file_ver": node.File, "indexes_ver": node.Indexes, "attributes_ver": node.Attributes, "acl_ver": node.Acl} {
 		m, er := json.Marshal(value)
 		if er != nil {
 			return
diff --git a/shock-server/util/util.go b/shock-server/util/util.go
index 623983b9..24286901 100644
--- a/shock-server/util/util.go
+++ b/shock-server/util/util.go
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ const chars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890"
 
 // Arrays to check for valid param and file form names for node creation and updating, and also acl modification.
 // Note: indexing and querying do not use functions that use these arrays and thus we don't have to include those field names.
-var validParams = []string{"action", "all", "archive_format", "attributes_str", "copy_attributes", "copy_data", "copy_indexes", "compression", "delete", "expiration", "file_name", "format", "ids", "index_name", "linkage", "operation", "owner", "parent_index", "parent_node", "parts", "path", "preserve_acls", "read", "remove_expiration", "source", "tags", "type", "unpack_node", "users", "write"}
+var validParams = []string{"action", "all", "archive_format", "attributes_str", "clear_revisions", "copy_attributes", "copy_data", "copy_indexes", "compression", "delete", "expiration", "file_name", "format", "ids", "index_name", "linkage", "operation", "owner", "parent_index", "parent_node", "parts", "path", "preserve_acls", "read", "remove_expiration", "source", "tags", "type", "unpack_node", "users", "write"}
 var validFiles = []string{"attributes", "subset_indices", "upload", "gzip", "bzip2"}
 var ValidUpload = []string{"upload", "gzip", "bzip2"}