diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index cdc65c8..7d86057 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ checksum = "a7a70ba024b9dc04c27ea2f0c0548feb474ec5c54bba33a7f72f873a39d07b24"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "matchtigs"
-version = "2.1.6"
+version = "2.1.7"
 dependencies = [
  "atomic-counter",
  "clap",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 078d86c..a752b1e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "matchtigs"
-version = "2.1.6"
+version = "2.1.7"
 authors = ["Sebastian Schmidt <sebastian.schmidt@helsinki.fi>"]
 description = "Different algorithms for computing small and minimum plain text representations of kmer sets."
 keywords = ["compression", "plain-text", "kmer", "genome", "bio"]