diff --git a/caom2utils/setup.cfg b/caom2utils/setup.cfg
index cea307d1..4a01b58e 100644
--- a/caom2utils/setup.cfg
+++ b/caom2utils/setup.cfg
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ edit_on_github = False
 github_project = opencadc/caom2tools
 install_requires = cadcdata>=1.2.1 caom2>=2.3 astropy>=2.0 spherical-geometry
 # version should be PEP386 compatible (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0386)
-version = 1.1
+version = 1.2