diff --git a/apps/i2psnark/java/src/org/klomp/snark/bencode/BDecoder.java b/apps/i2psnark/java/src/org/klomp/snark/bencode/BDecoder.java
index 5384154d1..9ba79f564 100644
--- a/apps/i2psnark/java/src/org/klomp/snark/bencode/BDecoder.java
+++ b/apps/i2psnark/java/src/org/klomp/snark/bencode/BDecoder.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 package org.klomp.snark.bencode;
 
 import java.io.EOFException;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.math.BigInteger;
@@ -232,10 +233,8 @@ public class BDecoder
 
     if (c == '-')
       {
-        c = read();
-        if (c == '0')
-          throw new InvalidBEncodingException("Negative zero not allowed");
         chars.append((char)c);
+        c = read();
       }
 
     if (c < '1' || c > '9')
@@ -376,4 +375,21 @@ public class BDecoder
     return result;
   }
 
+  /**
+   *  prints out the decoded data
+   *  @since 0.9.14
+   */
+  public static void main(String[] args) {
+    if (args.length != 1) {
+        System.err.println("Usage: BDecoder file.torrent");
+        System.exit(1);
+    }
+    try {
+        BEValue bev = bdecode(new FileInputStream(args[0]));
+        System.out.println(bev.toString());
+    } catch (IOException ioe) {
+        ioe.printStackTrace();
+        System.exit(1);
+    }
+  }
 }
diff --git a/history.txt b/history.txt
index d3f6cbbc7..89e0e109c 100644
--- a/history.txt
+++ b/history.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2014-06-10 zzz
+ * i2psnark: Fix decoding of negative numbers (ticket #1307)
+ * NewsFetcher: Only treat correct status codes as success
+
 2014-06-09 zzz
  * i2psnark:
    - Show client version if available
diff --git a/router/java/src/net/i2p/router/RouterVersion.java b/router/java/src/net/i2p/router/RouterVersion.java
index 4e28a2c8d..c10128fe6 100644
--- a/router/java/src/net/i2p/router/RouterVersion.java
+++ b/router/java/src/net/i2p/router/RouterVersion.java
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ public class RouterVersion {
     /** deprecated */
     public final static String ID = "Monotone";
     public final static String VERSION = CoreVersion.VERSION;
-    public final static long BUILD = 5;
+    public final static long BUILD = 6;
 
     /** for example "-test" */
     public final static String EXTRA = "";