diff --git a/pyani/__init__.py b/pyani/__init__.py
index 7279b564..ea0b0ec2 100644
--- a/pyani/__init__.py
+++ b/pyani/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # python package version
 # should match r"^__version__ = '(?P<version>[^']+)'$" for setup.py
-__version__ = "0.2.10"
+__version__ = "0.2.11"