diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 2980f0c..e73b81d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ Known issues:
 
 ## not yet released
 
+## 4.14.2
+
+- TOOLS-1592 First workaround for a possible BadDigestError when using
+  node v6.
+
 ## 4.14.1
 
 - TOOLS-1587 'triton profile docker-setup' fails when path to 'docker' has
diff --git a/lib/SaferJsonClient.js b/lib/SaferJsonClient.js
index 64ab172..48da580 100644
--- a/lib/SaferJsonClient.js
+++ b/lib/SaferJsonClient.js
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ SaferJsonClient.prototype.parse = function parse(req, callback) {
 
         res.on('data', function onData(chunk) {
             if (contentMd5Hash) {
-                contentMd5Hash.update(chunk.toString('utf8'));
+                contentMd5Hash.update(chunk.toString('utf8'), 'binary');
             }
 
             if (gz) {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 389a83b..dd505b7 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "triton",
   "description": "Joyent Triton CLI and client (https://www.joyent.com/triton)",
-  "version": "4.14.1",
+  "version": "4.14.2",
   "author": "Joyent (joyent.com)",
   "dependencies": {
     "assert-plus": "0.2.0",