diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ba9b48b..c427515 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+## v0.23.4 (2024-12-21)
+
 ## v0.23.3 (2024-12-21)
 
 ## v0.23.2 (2024-12-15)
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 75a7b5b..2d86ed2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 edition = "2021"
 name = "biobear"
-version = "0.23.3"
+version = "0.23.4"
 
 [lib]
 crate-type = ["cdylib"]
diff --git a/cz.json b/cz.json
index 0155bc7..ece10bd 100644
--- a/cz.json
+++ b/cz.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "commitizen": {
     "name": "cz_conventional_commits",
-    "version": "0.23.3",
+    "version": "0.23.4",
     "tag_format": "v$version",
     "version_files": [
       "Cargo.toml",
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d4ac88a..9391bc4 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ name = "biobear"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.9"
 description = "A package for working with Bioinformatics data with SQL and Arrow"
-version = "0.23.3"
+version = "0.23.4"
 
 [tool.maturin]
 features = ["pyo3/extension-module"]
diff --git a/python/biobear/__init__.py b/python/biobear/__init__.py
index 41c4422..109e13b 100644
--- a/python/biobear/__init__.py
+++ b/python/biobear/__init__.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 from .biobear import __runtime
 
 
-__version__ = "0.23.3"
+__version__ = "0.23.4"
 
 __all__ = [
     "compression",