diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 63a6edf..faac63b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-## v2.2.0 → v2.3.0
+## v2.3.4 → v2.4.0
+  * Added `refer-timbre` for conveniently `require`ing standard timbre vars.
+
+
+## v2.2.0 → v2.3.4
   * Added `with-log-level` for thread-local logging levels: `(with-level :trace (trace "This will log!"))`. Esp. useful for developing & unit tests, etc.
 
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e4ce84d..ea075cb 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 "2.3.4"] ; See CHANGELOG for breaking changes since 1.x
+[com.taoensso/timbre "2.4.0"] ; 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 "2.3.4"] ; project.clj
+[com.taoensso/timbre "2.4.0"] ; 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 b234fd6..fff6bc8 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-(defproject com.taoensso/timbre "2.3.4"
+(defproject com.taoensso/timbre "2.4.0"
   :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 a9f4d64..dd4db3f 100644
--- a/src/taoensso/timbre.clj
+++ b/src/taoensso/timbre.clj
@@ -410,6 +410,14 @@
          (log-and-rethrow-errors (/ 0))
          (logged-future (/ 0)))
 
+(defn refer-timbre
+  "Shorthand for:
+  (require '[taoensso.timbre :as timbre
+             :refer (trace debug info warn error fatal report spy with-log-level)])"
+  []
+  (require '[taoensso.timbre :as timbre
+             :refer (trace debug info warn error fatal report spy with-log-level)]))
+
 ;;;; Dev/tests
 
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