diff --git a/dcicutils/license_utils.py b/dcicutils/license_utils.py
index 63fb155fa..22ac7aa23 100644
--- a/dcicutils/license_utils.py
+++ b/dcicutils/license_utils.py
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
     if not ((sys.version_info[0] == 3) and (sys.version_info[1] >= 12)):
         raise Exception("The dcicutils.license_utils module is intended for use at development time, not runtime."
                         " It does not export a requirement for the pip-licenses library,"
-                        " but to use this in your unit tests, you are expected to assure a dev dependency on that library"
-                        " as part of the [tool.poetry.dependencies] section of your pyproject.toml file."
+                        " but to use this in your unit tests, you are expected to assure a dev dependency on that"
+                        " library as part of the [tool.poetry.dependencies] section of your pyproject.toml file."
                         " If you are trying to manually evaluate the utility of this library, you can"
                         " do 'pip install pip-licenses' and then retry importing this library.")
 # or you can comment out the above raise of Exception and instead execute:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 146641a28..a3178c8bc 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "dcicutils"
-version = "8.13.3.1b4"  # TODO: To become 8.13.4
+version = "8.13.3.1b5"  # TODO: To become 8.13.4
 description = "Utility package for interacting with the 4DN Data Portal and other 4DN resources"
 authors = ["4DN-DCIC Team <support@4dnucleome.org>"]
 license = "MIT"