diff --git a/geoms_tc.pro b/geoms_tc.pro
index 892aa05c4b6238d81f9ae03e9e6675773ccf114e..d3074b1086f12d5cb768218fdd85c8b8d8b79720 100644
--- a/geoms_tc.pro
+++ b/geoms_tc.pro
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@
 ; 2024-11-26, v2.17 Ian Boyd  Add run-time error handling capability in geoms_qa.pro and geoms_harmon.pro
 ;                             plus fixes in idlcr8hdf and idlcr8ascii
 ; 2024-12-10, v2.18 Ian Boyd  update due to fix to idlcr8ascii
+; 2024-12-18, v2.19 Ian Boyd  update due to fix to idlcr8hdf
 ;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 PRO geoms_tc
@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@ PRO geoms_tc
 	if ( iNrArgs ne 2 ) then begin
 		print
 		print, 'GEOMS template checker (geoms_tc)'
-		print, '  Release v2.18, 2024-12-10'
+		print, '  Release v2.19, 2024-12-18'
 		print, '  Does GEOMS template compliance checks on HDF4/5 files.'
 		print
 		print, 'usage: idl -rt=geoms_tc.sav -args [GEOMS-TE-FILE] [HDFFILE] '