diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6913ea4907..b5af6d3875 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1496,7 +1496,7 @@ checksum = "9f1341053f34bb13b5e9590afb7d94b48b48d4b87467ec28e3c238693bb553de"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "sourmash"
-version = "0.12.0"
+version = "0.12.1"
 dependencies = [
  "az",
  "byteorder",
diff --git a/src/core/Cargo.toml b/src/core/Cargo.toml
index 6a65d1b859..9700d2b67a 100644
--- a/src/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "sourmash"
-version = "0.12.0"
+version = "0.12.1"
 authors = ["Luiz Irber <luiz.irber@gmail.com>"]
 description = "MinHash sketches for genomic data"
 repository = "https://github.com/sourmash-bio/sourmash"