diff --git a/doc/index.rst b/doc/index.rst
index 72574251..760e93c6 100644
--- a/doc/index.rst
+++ b/doc/index.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-ernwin 1.0
-==========
+ernwin 1.0.1
+============
 
 Ernwin is a program for sampling coarse grained RNA structures.
 
diff --git a/fess/__init__.py b/fess/__init__.py
index 33cfaa89..3674c4d9 100644
--- a/fess/__init__.py
+++ b/fess/__init__.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 __author__ = "Peter Kerpedjiev, Bernhard Thiel"
 __copyright__ = "Copyright 2012 - 2016"
 __license__ = "GNU Affero GPL v 3.0"
-__version__ = "0.1"
+__version__ = "1.0.1"
 __maintainer__ = "Bernhard Thiel, Peter Kerpedjiev"
 __email__ = "thiel@tbi.univie.ac.at, pkerp@tbi.univie.ac.at"
 
diff --git a/release_checklist b/release_checklist
index f9d4cad6..99498421 100644
--- a/release_checklist
+++ b/release_checklist
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 * Create a release branch from develop. (Only bugfixes in release branch)
-* Increment version number in __init__.py and in doc/index.rst
+* Increment version number in setup.py, __init__.py and in doc/index.rst
 * Run nose2
 * Update documentation
 * Build the documentation (`sphinx-build -a -E -W -b html doc compiledDoc` to build it)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 75f5e08b..5ca9565c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ def run(self):
 
 setup(cmdclass={'build_py': build_py},
       name='ernwin',
-      version='1.0',
+      version='1.0.1',
       description='Coarse Grain 3D RNA Structure Modelling',
       author='Bernhard Thiel, Peter Kerpedjiev',
       author_email='thiel@tbi.univie.ac.at, pkerp@tbi.univie.ac.at',