diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index 72ce2e8c..b3b68e1f 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ authors:
     given-names: Alexander
     orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7086-2568
 title: "Bakta: Rapid & standardized annotation of bacterial genomes & plasmids"
-version: 1.1
+version: 1.1.1
 keywords: 
   - bioinformatics
   - "genome-annotation"
diff --git a/bakta/__init__.py b/bakta/__init__.py
index b99eb7e7..fd352a36 100644
--- a/bakta/__init__.py
+++ b/bakta/__init__.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-__version__ = '1.1'
+__version__ = '1.1.1'
 __db_schema_version__ = 3