diff --git a/data/txt/sha256sums.txt b/data/txt/sha256sums.txt
index 0531bb6cd..ea1056df8 100644
--- a/data/txt/sha256sums.txt
+++ b/data/txt/sha256sums.txt
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ b0f434f64105bd61ab0f6867b3f681b97fa02b4fb809ac538db382d031f0e609  data/xml/paylo
 0648264166455010921df1ec431e4c973809f37ef12cbfea75f95029222eb689  data/xml/payloads/stacked_queries.xml
 997556b6170964a64474a2e053abe33cf2cf029fb1acec660d4651cc67a3c7e1  data/xml/payloads/time_blind.xml
 40a4878669f318568097719d07dc906a19b8520bc742be3583321fc1e8176089  data/xml/payloads/union_query.xml
-8b63fda09d5c5e43ad8e6db1db90e5b1017fbe02735f3858843fc52118e3a33a  data/xml/queries.xml
+9d7dcbc6c5e368c44db851865ff49c791c3dee1ee62d8c02af8f8b15f4551aed  data/xml/queries.xml
 0f5a9c84cb57809be8759f483c7d05f54847115e715521ac0ecf390c0aa68465  doc/AUTHORS
 ce20a4b452f24a97fde7ec9ed816feee12ac148e1fde5f1722772cc866b12740  doc/CHANGELOG.md
 233fb10dff24a2436eb24496db7fadb46659da6745a0d53c744db701188041ef  doc/THANKS.md
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ c03dc585f89642cfd81b087ac2723e3e1bb3bfa8c60e6f5fe58ef3b0113ebfe6  lib/core/data.
 48797d6c34dd9bb8a53f7f3794c85f4288d82a9a1d6be7fcf317d388cb20d4b3  lib/core/replication.py
 0b8c38a01bb01f843d94a6c5f2075ee47520d0c4aa799cecea9c3e2c5a4a23a6  lib/core/revision.py
 888daba83fd4a34e9503fe21f01fef4cc730e5cde871b1d40e15d4cbc847d56c  lib/core/session.py
-1c130171ed2b53992204d421c7dc663cc122bf16ec73f544ba72c7b3e7487ff9  lib/core/settings.py
+2eb856bf625266a4cba156b0ff58a1c19ee271fa27289acdf954faa7fadc2005  lib/core/settings.py
 cd5a66deee8963ba8e7e9af3dd36eb5e8127d4d68698811c29e789655f507f82  lib/core/shell.py
 bcb5d8090d5e3e0ef2a586ba09ba80eef0c6d51feb0f611ed25299fbb254f725  lib/core/subprocessng.py
 70ea3768f1b3062b22d20644df41c86238157ec80dd43da40545c620714273c6  lib/core/target.py
diff --git a/data/xml/queries.xml b/data/xml/queries.xml
index e2f284057..0d32e5a07 100644
--- a/data/xml/queries.xml
+++ b/data/xml/queries.xml
@@ -1713,6 +1713,7 @@
         <concatenate query="%s||%s"/>
         <case query="SELECT (IF(%s,1,0))"/>
         <inference query="UNICODE(SUBSTRING((%s),%d,1))>%d"/>
+        <substring query="SUBSTRING((%s),%d,%d)"/>
         <banner/>
         <current_user/>
         <current_db/>
@@ -1752,6 +1753,7 @@
         <concatenate query="%s||%s"/>
         <case query="SELECT (CASE WHEN (%s) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END)"/>
         <inference query="ASCII(SUBSTRING((%s),%d,1))>%d"/>
+        <substring query="SUBSTRING((%s),%d,%d)"/>
         <banner query="sys_stat('st_dbms_name')||' - '||sys_stat('st_dbms_ver')"/>
         <current_user query="USERNAME()"/>
         <current_db query="UPPER(USERNAME())"/>
@@ -1803,6 +1805,7 @@
         <concatenate query="%s||%s"/>
         <case query="SELECT (CASE WHEN (%s) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END)"/>
         <inference query="ASCII(SUBSTR((%s),%d,1))>%d"/>
+        <substring query="SUBSTR((%s),%d,%d)"/>
         <banner query="CURRENT_VERSION()"/>
         <current_user query="CURRENT_USER()"/>
         <current_db query="CURRENT_SCHEMA()"/>
diff --git a/lib/core/settings.py b/lib/core/settings.py
index 7c623ca8b..6c1641b7a 100644
--- a/lib/core/settings.py
+++ b/lib/core/settings.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ from lib.core.enums import OS
 from thirdparty import six
 
 # sqlmap version (<major>.<minor>.<month>.<monthly commit>)
-VERSION = "1.10.6.97"
+VERSION = "1.10.6.98"
 TYPE = "dev" if VERSION.count('.') > 2 and VERSION.split('.')[-1] != '0' else "stable"
 TYPE_COLORS = {"dev": 33, "stable": 90, "pip": 34}
 VERSION_STRING = "sqlmap/%s#%s" % ('.'.join(VERSION.split('.')[:-1]) if VERSION.count('.') > 2 and VERSION.split('.')[-1] == '0' else VERSION, TYPE)