diff --git a/selene_sdk/version.py b/selene_sdk/version.py
index df124332..f6b7e267 100644
--- a/selene_sdk/version.py
+++ b/selene_sdk/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.4.2"
+__version__ = "0.4.3"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 08a2c7f2..5a888a72 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 cmdclass = {'build_ext': build_ext}
 
 setup(name="selene-sdk",
-      version="0.4.2",
+      version="0.4.3",
       long_description=long_description,
       long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
       description=("framework for developing sequence-level "