diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d3561a24..7febb0e1 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "stimela"
-version = "2.0rc16"
+version = "2.0rc17"
 description = "Framework for system agnostic pipelines for (not just) radio interferometry"
 authors = ["Sphesihle Makhathini <sphemakh@gmail.com>", "Oleg Smirnov and RATT <osmirnov@gmail.com>"]
 readme = "README.rst"