diff --git a/pydeseq2/__version__.py b/pydeseq2/__version__.py
index 9b084a60..11643c82 100644
--- a/pydeseq2/__version__.py
+++ b/pydeseq2/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.4.12"
+__version__ = "0.5.0pre1"