diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f10355c..086e628 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name='PLAID-X',
-    version='0.2.1',
+    version='0.3.0a1',
     author='Eugene Yang',
     author_email='eugene.yang@jhu.edu',
     description="Efficient and Effective Passage Search via Contextualized Late Interaction over BERT and XLM-RoBERTa",