diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2817396f..4601b4a5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name='species',
-    version='0.5.4',
+    version='0.5.5',
     description='Toolkit for atmospheric characterization of directly imaged exoplanets',
     long_description=open('README.rst').read(),
     long_description_content_type='text/x-rst',
diff --git a/species/__init__.py b/species/__init__.py
index d2fe6bd2..44d2a470 100644
--- a/species/__init__.py
+++ b/species/__init__.py
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
 
 __author__ = "Tomas Stolker"
 __license__ = "MIT"
-__version__ = "0.5.4"
+__version__ = "0.5.5"
 __maintainer__ = "Tomas Stolker"
 __email__ = "stolker@strw.leidenuniv.nl"
 __status__ = "Development"