diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7803de92..0f1c4389 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "janus-core"
-version = "0.6.3b0"
+version = "0.6.3b2"
 description = "Tools for machine learnt interatomic potentials"
 authors = [
     "Elliott Kasoar",
diff --git a/release.sh b/release.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e01f9121
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+version=$1
+
+sed -i "s;^version =.*;version = \"$version\";g" pyproject.toml
+
+git add pyproject.toml 
+git commit -m "bump version for release $version"
+git tag -f -a v$version -m "release $version"
+git push 
+git push --tags