diff --git a/kademlia/__init__.py b/kademlia/__init__.py
index bce7672..c70ac2c 100644
--- a/kademlia/__init__.py
+++ b/kademlia/__init__.py
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 Kademlia is a Python implementation of the Kademlia protocol which
 utilizes the asyncio library.
 """
-__version__ = "2.0"
+__version__ = "2.1"