diff --git a/cyto_dl/__init__.py b/cyto_dl/__init__.py
index 4ae4758a..0cae0518 100644
--- a/cyto_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/cyto_dl/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "0.1.8"
+__version__ = "0.3.0"
 
 
 # silence bio packages warnings
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 95f251f8..ba4716eb 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "pdm.pep517.api"
 
 [project]
 name = "cyto-dl"
-version = "0.1.8"
+version = "0.3.0"
 description = """\
   Collection of representation learning models, techniques, callbacks, utils, \
   used to create latent variable models of cell shape, morphology and \
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ exclude_lines = [
 
 # https://pypi.org/project/bumpver
 [tool.bumpver]
-current_version = "0.2.1"
+current_version = "0.3.0"
 version_pattern = "MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH[.PYTAGNUM]"
 commit_message  = "Bump version {old_version} -> {new_version}"
 commit          = true
diff --git a/version.toml b/version.toml
index 6739349e..36342095 100644
--- a/version.toml
+++ b/version.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # -----DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE-----
 # This file should only be modified by bumpver, which should in turn only be ran
 # via a GH Action
-version = "0.1.7"
+version = "0.3.0"