diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 704558b..5786fe6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 [project]
 name = "treeprofiler"
 description = "A command line tool to annotate and visualize metadata in phylogenetic tree."
-version = "1.2.4"
+version = "1.2.4.1"
 authors = [
   { name="Ziqi Deng", email="dengziqi1234@gmail.com" },
   { name="Jaime Huerta-Cepas", email="jhcepas@gmail.com" },
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a703dd1..007b99e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ def get_files(directory):
             file_list.append(file_path)
     return file_list
 
-VERSION = '1.2.4'
+VERSION = '1.2.4.1'
 install_requires = ['ete4', 'selenium', 'biopython','scipy']
 example_files = get_files('examples/')
 test_files = get_files('tests/')