diff --git a/sql/patch_110_111_a.sql b/sql/patch_110_111_a.sql
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9fa1918e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sql/patch_110_111_a.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+-- Copyright [1999-2015] Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
+-- Copyright [2016-2023] EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
+-- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+-- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+-- You may obtain a copy of the License at
+--
+--      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+--
+-- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+-- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+-- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+-- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+-- limitations under the License.
+
+/**
+@header patch_110_111_a.sql - schema version
+@desc   Update schema_version in meta table to 111
+*/
+
+UPDATE meta SET meta_value='111' WHERE meta_key='schema_version';
+
+-- patch identifier
+INSERT INTO meta (species_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES (NULL, 'patch', 'patch_110_111_a.sql|schema_version');
diff --git a/sql/table.sql b/sql/table.sql
index 9f1483bcc..14038f492 100755
--- a/sql/table.sql
+++ b/sql/table.sql
@@ -1685,8 +1685,8 @@ CREATE TABLE `meta` (
 INSERT INTO meta (meta_key, meta_value, species_id) VALUES ('schema_type', 'funcgen', NULL);
 
 -- Update and remove these for each release to avoid erroneous patching
-INSERT INTO meta (species_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES (NULL, 'schema_version', '110');
-INSERT INTO meta (species_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES (NULL, 'patch', 'patch_109_110_a.sql|schema_version');
+INSERT INTO meta (species_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES (NULL, 'schema_version', '111');
+INSERT INTO meta (species_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES (NULL, 'patch', 'patch_110_111_a.sql|schema_version');
 
 /**
 @table meta_coord