diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ab714cf3480ad84c980b4050915e0ad35bae20b3..51b7e5aad2a1b80839fd3403ae2ce196f84c605c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ Omitted versions are plain bugfix releases with only minor changes and fixes.
 - The Artificial Intelligence Toolkit (at least its tutorial page) is part of the GUI
 - The OASIS comprises Repository, Archive, Metainfo, Encyclopedia, and Artificial Intelligence Toolkit.
 
+### v0.8.7
+- a new variant of the Metainfo browser
+
 ### v0.8.1
 - switched to support Python 3.7
 - client library as pypi package `nomad-lab`
diff --git a/gui/src/components/Histogram.js b/gui/src/components/Histogram.js
index 485f01f1b6c38f0b5456e62d8a0969bff953a2c3..ad80fbafde4258d4770ce4ecfe7de2bc955f563a 100644
--- a/gui/src/components/Histogram.js
+++ b/gui/src/components/Histogram.js
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ export default function Histogram({
 
       item
         .select('.name')
-        .text(d => getValueLabel(d.name))
+        .text(d => getValueLabel(d))
         .attr('y', d => y(d.key) + 4)
         .style('fill', textColor)
 
diff --git a/gui/src/components/search/QuantityHistogram.js b/gui/src/components/search/QuantityHistogram.js
index a7d7859284bebb958c592d5ad89faf4116a44756..c49d67da4afa8e9f9199b3734179d1ce0e71ffe7 100644
--- a/gui/src/components/search/QuantityHistogram.js
+++ b/gui/src/components/search/QuantityHistogram.js
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ export default function QuantityHistogram({
     numberOfValues={numberOfValues}
     title={title}
     onClick={handleItemClicked}
+    selected={query[quantity]}
     {...props}
   />
 }
diff --git a/nomad/cli/dev.py b/nomad/cli/dev.py
index 8c05c7246d36857439e7b8dfcc45c0e7c3b85c17..39512507d708a228be48f5bf5072754f6db9ae6c 100644
--- a/nomad/cli/dev.py
+++ b/nomad/cli/dev.py
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ def search_quantities():
     from nomad import search
     # Due to this import, the parsing module will register all code_names based on parser
     # implementations.
-    from nomad import parsing  # pylint: disable=unused-import
+    from nomad.parsing.parsers import parser_dict  # pylint: disable=unused-import
     import json
 
     def to_dict(search_quantity):