diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 8fe8842..808a3cf 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: SingleCellMultiModal
 Title: Integrating Multi-modal Single Cell Experiment datasets
-Version: 1.17.0
+Version: 1.17.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Marcel", "Ramos", , "marcel.ramos@roswellpark.org",
         c("aut", "cre"), c(ORCID = "0000-0002-3242-0582")
@@ -57,4 +57,4 @@ biocViews: ExperimentData, SingleCellData, ReproducibleResearch,
     ExperimentHub, GEO
 Encoding: UTF-8
 RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
-Date: 2024-04-29
+Date: 2024-06-18