diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b5eed85..e4ce84d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 **[API docs](http://ptaoussanis.github.io/timbre/)** | **[CHANGELOG](https://github.com/ptaoussanis/timbre/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)** | [contact & contributing](#contact--contributing) | [other Clojure libs](https://www.taoensso.com/clojure-libraries) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/#!/ptaoussanis) | current [semantic](http://semver.org/) version:
 
 ```clojure
-[com.taoensso/timbre "2.3.3"] ; See CHANGELOG for breaking changes since 1.x
+[com.taoensso/timbre "2.3.4"] ; See CHANGELOG for breaking changes since 1.x
 ```
 
 # Timbre, a (sane) Clojure logging & profiling library
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Logging with Java can be maddeningly, unnecessarily hard. Particularly if all yo
 Add the necessary dependency to your [Leiningen](http://leiningen.org/) `project.clj` and `require` the library in your ns:
 
 ```clojure
-[com.taoensso/timbre "2.3.3"] ; project.clj
+[com.taoensso/timbre "2.3.4"] ; project.clj
 (ns my-app (:require [taoensso.timbre :as timbre
                       :refer (trace debug info warn error fatal spy with-log-level)])) ; ns
 ```
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index 34ae313..b234fd6 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-(defproject com.taoensso/timbre "2.3.3"
+(defproject com.taoensso/timbre "2.3.4"
   :description "Clojure logging & profiling library"
   :url "https://github.com/ptaoussanis/timbre"
   :license {:name "Eclipse Public License"
diff --git a/src/taoensso/timbre.clj b/src/taoensso/timbre.clj
index d3996e6..a9f4d64 100644
--- a/src/taoensso/timbre.clj
+++ b/src/taoensso/timbre.clj
@@ -347,10 +347,10 @@
 (defmacro log
   "When logging is enabled, actually logs given arguments with level-relevant
   appender-fns using print-style :message."
-  {:arglists '([level & args] [level throwable & args])}
+  {:arglists '([level & message] [level throwable & message])}
   [level & sigs]
   `(when (logging-enabled? ~level)
-     (log* {} ~level ~sigs nil)))
+     (log* {} ~level ~sigs print-str)))
 
 (defmacro logp {:arglists '([level & message] [level throwable & message])}
   [& sigs] `(log ~@sigs)) ; Alias