diff --git a/app/build.gradle b/app/build.gradle
index d8ca4a598..999093ada 100644
--- a/app/build.gradle
+++ b/app/build.gradle
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ android {
         applicationId "com.google.android.stardroid"
         minSdkVersion 16
         targetSdkVersion 30
-        versionCode 1518
-        versionName "1.9.6 - RC1"
+        versionCode 1519
+        versionName "1.9.6 - RC2"
         buildConfigField 'String', 'GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_CODE', '""'
     }
 
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/google/android/stardroid/layers/AbstractFileBasedLayer.java b/app/src/main/java/com/google/android/stardroid/layers/AbstractFileBasedLayer.java
index b28eeac38..b4121ffbb 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/google/android/stardroid/layers/AbstractFileBasedLayer.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/google/android/stardroid/layers/AbstractFileBasedLayer.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import com.google.android.stardroid.util.Blog;
 import com.google.android.stardroid.util.MiscUtil;
 import com.google.common.io.Closeables;
+import com.google.protobuf.Parser;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
@@ -77,10 +78,10 @@ private void readSourceFile(String sourceFilename) {
     InputStream in = null;
     try {
       in = assetManager.open(sourceFilename, AssetManager.ACCESS_BUFFER);
-      AstronomicalSourcesProto.Builder builder = AstronomicalSourcesProto.newBuilder();
-      builder.mergeFrom(in);
+      Parser<AstronomicalSourcesProto> parser = AstronomicalSourcesProto.parser();
+      AstronomicalSourcesProto sources = parser.parseFrom(in);
 
-      for (AstronomicalSourceProto proto : builder.build().getSourceList()) {
+      for (AstronomicalSourceProto proto : sources.getSourceList()) {
         fileSources.add(new ProtobufAstronomicalSource(proto, getResources()));
       }
       Log.d(TAG, "Found: " + fileSources.size() + " sources");