diff --git a/src/akismet/_version.py b/src/akismet/_version.py
index 3e69efb..a89bec3 100644
--- a/src/akismet/_version.py
+++ b/src/akismet/_version.py
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@
 # by setuptools during the package build, and both common.py and __init__.py (which
 # imports commonl.py) need to import the third-party httpx library, which is not
 # available during package build (it only becomes available after package install).
-LIBRARY_VERSION = "1.3a1"
+LIBRARY_VERSION = "1.3"