diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index aa4bdce8..c4e29c1f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 name = "bend-lang"
 description = "A high-level, massively parallel programming language"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
-version = "0.2.36"
+version = "0.2.37-alpha.1"
 edition = "2021"
 rust-version = "1.74"
 exclude = ["tests/"]