diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index 8b386bda..4ea72a85 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 0.1.7
+current_version = 0.1.8
 tag = True
 commit = True
 
diff --git a/cyto_dl/__init__.py b/cyto_dl/__init__.py
index 9993d06b..4ae4758a 100644
--- a/cyto_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/cyto_dl/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "0.1.7"
+__version__ = "0.1.8"
 
 
 # silence bio packages warnings
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8e403b92..a0d9b4d0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "pdm.pep517.api"
 
 [project]
 name = "cyto-dl"
-version = "0.1.7"
+version = "0.1.8"
 description = """\
   Collection of representation learning models, techniques, callbacks, utils, \
   used to create latent variable models of cell shape, morphology and \