diff --git a/bindings/node/Cargo.toml b/bindings/node/Cargo.toml
index ff05b4908..608786a2d 100644
--- a/bindings/node/Cargo.toml
+++ b/bindings/node/Cargo.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 authors = ["Nicolas Patry <nicolas@huggingface.co>"]
 edition = "2021"
 name    = "node"
-version = "0.20.4-dev.0"
+version = "0.21.0-rc0"
 
 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
 
diff --git a/bindings/python/Cargo.toml b/bindings/python/Cargo.toml
index 6c5a5244d..34d54dbd5 100644
--- a/bindings/python/Cargo.toml
+++ b/bindings/python/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "tokenizers-python"
-version = "0.20.4-dev.0"
+version = "0.21.0-rc0"
 authors = ["Anthony MOI <m.anthony.moi@gmail.com>"]
 edition = "2021"
 
diff --git a/tokenizers/Cargo.toml b/tokenizers/Cargo.toml
index 16285e113..abfe02906 100644
--- a/tokenizers/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tokenizers/Cargo.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 authors = ["Anthony MOI <m.anthony.moi@gmail.com>", "Nicolas Patry <patry.nicolas@protonmail.com>"]
 edition = "2018"
 name = "tokenizers"
-version = "0.20.4-dev.0"
+version = "0.21.0-rc0"
 homepage = "https://github.com/huggingface/tokenizers"
 repository = "https://github.com/huggingface/tokenizers"
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/tokenizers/"