diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index 4ea72a85..d45f632b 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 0.1.8
+current_version = 0.2.0
+
 tag = True
 commit = True
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/bump.yml b/.github/workflows/bump.yml
index e33d3d84..c31656ff 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/bump.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/bump.yml
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0 # Fetch all history for all branches and tags
+        # with:
+        #   fetch-depth: 0 # Fetch all history for all branches and tags
 
       - name: Setup PDM
         uses: pdm-project/setup-pdm@v2
@@ -41,8 +41,12 @@ jobs:
       - name: Apply bumpversion minor
         run: |
           git checkout -b admin/version-bump
-          bumpversion minor
-          git push origin admin/version-bump
+          bumpversion minor --verbose
+
+      - name: Create new branch
+        uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v5
+        branch: admin/version-bump
+        create_branch: true
 
       - name: Create Pull Request
         uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v5
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
index 2b44620c..379c298c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -24,20 +24,11 @@ jobs:
         with:
           python-version: "3.10"
 
-      - name: Install bumpversion
-        run: pip install bumpversion
-
       - name: Configure Git
         run: |
           git config user.name github-actions
           git config user.email github-actions@github.com
 
-      - name: Apply bumpversion minor
-        run: |
-          bumpversion minor
-          git push
-          git push --tags
-
       - name: Build package
         run: pdm build
 
diff --git a/cyto_dl/__init__.py b/cyto_dl/__init__.py
index 4ae4758a..7c1de0d8 100644
--- a/cyto_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/cyto_dl/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
+
 __version__ = "0.1.8"
 
 
+
 # silence bio packages warnings
 import logging
 import warnings
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a0d9b4d0..ec6e7d4a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ build-backend = "pdm.pep517.api"
 
 [project]
 name = "cyto-dl"
-version = "0.1.8"
+
+version = "0.2.0"
+
 description = """\
   Collection of representation learning models, techniques, callbacks, utils, \
   used to create latent variable models of cell shape, morphology and \
@@ -72,7 +74,7 @@ torchserve = [
 ]
 pcloud = [
     "pyntcloud>=0.3.1",
-    "aicsshparam>=0.1.7",
+    "aicsshparam>=0.2.0",
     "torch-geometric>=2.3.1",
     "point-cloud-utils>=0.29.6",
     "geomloss>=0.2.6",