diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a8d9143..2570d9d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def build_extension(self, ext):
 
 setup(
     name='hammingdist',
-    version='0.8',
+    version='0.10.0',
     author='Dominic Kempf, Liam Keegan',
     author_email='ssc@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de',
     description='A fast tool to calculate Hamming distances',