diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 054e64f..6cfffa4 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "picea"
-version = "0.0.23_alpha"
+version = "0.0.23"
 description = "A lightweight python library for working with trees and biological sequence collections"
 authors = ["Rens Holmer"]
 readme = "README.md"