diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 654d458..b0af801 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@
 History
 -------
 
+0.7.3 (2020-06-27)
+++++++++++++++++++
+
+* Fixed segmentation faults due to wrong handling of inputs in bytes-like-only
+  functions in C extensions.
+
 0.7.2 (2020-05-07)
 ++++++++++++++++++
 * Added PyPy support.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f293274..3bf5834 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ def run_setup(with_binary=True):
 
     setup(
         name='fuzzysearch',
-        version='0.7.2',
+        version='0.7.3',
         description='fuzzysearch is useful for finding approximate subsequence matches',
         long_description=readme + '\n\n' + history,
         author='Tal Einat',
diff --git a/src/fuzzysearch/__init__.py b/src/fuzzysearch/__init__.py
index 40a51a4..457ec83 100644
--- a/src/fuzzysearch/__init__.py
+++ b/src/fuzzysearch/__init__.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 """
 __author__ = 'Tal Einat'
 __email__ = 'taleinat@gmail.com'
-__version__ = '0.7.2'
+__version__ = '0.7.3'
 
 __all__ = [
     'find_near_matches',