diff --git a/docs/userguide.rst b/docs/userguide.rst
index 152e3402..c1dd13ae 100644
--- a/docs/userguide.rst
+++ b/docs/userguide.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 User Guide
 ==========
 
-.. _guide-connecting:
-
 Installing
 ==========
 MongoEngine is available on PyPI, so to use it you can use 
@@ -20,6 +18,8 @@ Alternatively, if you don't have setuptools installed, `download it from PyPi
 
     # python setup.py install
 
+.. _guide-connecting:
+
 Connecting to MongoDB
 =====================
 To connect to a running instance of :program:`mongod`, use the
diff --git a/mongoengine/fields.py b/mongoengine/fields.py
index badc7363..6612d444 100644
--- a/mongoengine/fields.py
+++ b/mongoengine/fields.py
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ import pymongo
 import datetime
 
 
-__all__ = ['StringField', 'IntField', 'FloatField', 'DateTimeField', 
-           'EmbeddedDocumentField', 'ListField', 'ObjectIdField', 
-           'ReferenceField', 'ValidationError']
+__all__ = ['StringField', 'IntField', 'FloatField', 'BooleanField',
+           'DateTimeField', 'EmbeddedDocumentField', 'ListField', 
+           'ObjectIdField', 'ReferenceField', 'ValidationError']
 
 
 class StringField(BaseField):
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class StringField(BaseField):
         return unicode(value)
 
     def validate(self, value):
-        assert(isinstance(value, (str, unicode)))
+        assert isinstance(value, (str, unicode))
 
         if self.max_length is not None and len(value) > self.max_length:
             raise ValidationError('String value is too long')
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ class IntField(BaseField):
         return int(value)
 
     def validate(self, value):
-        assert(isinstance(value, (int, long)))
+        assert isinstance(value, (int, long))
 
         if self.min_value is not None and value < self.min_value:
             raise ValidationError('Integer value is too small')
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ class FloatField(BaseField):
         return float(value)
 
     def validate(self, value):
-        assert(isinstance(value, float))
+        assert isinstance(value, float)
 
         if self.min_value is not None and value < self.min_value:
             raise ValidationError('Float value is too small')
@@ -80,12 +80,23 @@ class FloatField(BaseField):
             raise ValidationError('Float value is too large')
 
 
+class BooleanField(BaseField):
+    """A boolean field type.
+    """
+    
+    def to_python(self, value):
+        return bool(value)
+
+    def validate(self, value):
+        assert isinstance(value, bool)
+
+
 class DateTimeField(BaseField):
     """A datetime field.
     """
 
     def validate(self, value):
-        assert(isinstance(value, datetime.datetime))
+        assert isinstance(value, datetime.datetime)
 
 
 class EmbeddedDocumentField(BaseField):
@@ -202,7 +213,7 @@ class ReferenceField(BaseField):
         return pymongo.dbref.DBRef(collection, id_)
 
     def validate(self, value):
-        assert(isinstance(value, (self.document_type, pymongo.dbref.DBRef)))
+        assert isinstance(value, (self.document_type, pymongo.dbref.DBRef))
 
     def lookup_member(self, member_name):
         return self.document_type._fields.get(member_name)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b8f43e1e..e0585b7c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-
-VERSION = '0.1.1'
+import os
 
 DESCRIPTION = "A Python Document-Object Mapper for working with MongoDB"
 
@@ -10,6 +9,20 @@ try:
 except:
     pass
 
+def get_version(version_tuple):
+    version = '%s.%s' % (version_tuple[0], version_tuple[1])
+    if version_tuple[2]:
+        version = '%s.%s' % (version, version_tuple[2])
+    return version
+
+# Dirty hack to get version number from monogengine/__init__.py - we can't 
+# import it as it depends on PyMongo and PyMongo isn't installed until this
+# file is read
+init = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'mongoengine', '__init__.py')
+version_line = filter(lambda l: l.startswith('VERSION'), open(init))[0]
+VERSION = get_version(eval(version_line.split('=')[-1]))
+print VERSION
+
 CLASSIFIERS = [
     'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
     'Intended Audience :: Developers',
diff --git a/tests/fields.py b/tests/fields.py
index b580dc20..f61d45a8 100644
--- a/tests/fields.py
+++ b/tests/fields.py
@@ -113,6 +113,21 @@ class FieldTest(unittest.TestCase):
         person.height = 4.0
         self.assertRaises(ValidationError, person.validate)
 
+    def test_boolean_validation(self):
+        """Ensure that invalid values cannot be assigned to boolean fields.
+        """
+        class Person(Document):
+            admin = BooleanField()
+
+        person = Person()
+        person.admin = True
+        person.validate()
+
+        person.admin = 2
+        self.assertRaises(ValidationError, person.validate)
+        person.admin = 'Yes'
+        self.assertRaises(ValidationError, person.validate)
+
     def test_datetime_validation(self):
         """Ensure that invalid values cannot be assigned to datetime fields.
         """