diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 927e221a..b928081b 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # CHANGES.md
 
+## v0.2.5
+* Version bump to fix `PyPI` wheel/script shebangs
+
 ## v0.2.4
 
 * `ANIm` now uses `delta-filter` to remove alignments of repeat regions (issue #91)
diff --git a/pyani/__init__.py b/pyani/__init__.py
index 27cbeb33..25db491d 100644
--- a/pyani/__init__.py
+++ b/pyani/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # python package version
 # should match r"^__version__ = '(?P<version>[^']+)'$" for setup.py
-__version__ = '0.2.4'
+__version__ = '0.2.5'