diff --git a/docs/tutorial/intro.md b/docs/tutorial/intro.md
index 44eb7f1b3..e652583f7 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/intro.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/intro.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ In your favorite virtual environment, simply do:
 pip install flair
 ```
 
-Flair requires Python 3.7+. 
+Flair requires Python 3.8+. 
 
 ## Example 1: Tag Entities in Text
 
diff --git a/flair/__init__.py b/flair/__init__.py
index 46550af6b..11e23b3eb 100644
--- a/flair/__init__.py
+++ b/flair/__init__.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
     device = torch.device("cpu")
 
 # global variable: version
-__version__ = "0.12.2"
+__version__ = "0.13"
 """The current version of the flair library installed."""
 
 # global variable: arrow symbol
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 368fc5fff..93f8c92d0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="flair",
-    version="0.12.2",
+    version="0.13",
     description="A very simple framework for state-of-the-art NLP",
     long_description=Path("README.md").read_text(encoding="utf-8"),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",