diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ac337ee7fd..2f93c38952 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 setup(
     name="watertap",
     url="https://github.com/watertap-org/watertap",
-    version="0.12.dev0",
+    version="0.12.0rc0",
     description="WaterTAP modeling library",
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",