diff --git a/circlator/common.py b/circlator/common.py
index 70cfc16..8be8bde 100644
--- a/circlator/common.py
+++ b/circlator/common.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 class Error (Exception): pass
 
-version = '1.1.1'
+version = '1.1.2'
 
 def syscall(cmd, allow_fail=False, verbose=False):
     if verbose:
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d496aaf..a61a6d0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='circlator',
-    version='1.1.1',
+    version='1.1.2',
     description='circlator: a tool to circularise genome assemblies',
     packages = find_packages(),
     package_data={'circlator': ['data/*']},