diff --git a/midas/utility.py b/midas/utility.py
index bcb38c5..a4c1496 100644
--- a/midas/utility.py
+++ b/midas/utility.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 import io, os, stat, sys, resource, gzip, platform, subprocess, bz2
 
-__version__ = '1.2.0'
+__version__ = '1.2.1'
 
 def which(program):
 	""" Mimics unix 'which' function """
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e208915..a7cf744 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 setup(
 	name = 'MIDAS',
-	version = '1.2.0',
+	version = '1.2.1',
 	description = 'An integrated pipeline and for estimating species and strain-level genomic variation from metagenomic data',
 	license = 'GPL',
 	author = 'Stephen Nayfach',