diff --git a/pyBigWig.h b/pyBigWig.h
index dc5fc7e..1095516 100644
--- a/pyBigWig.h
+++ b/pyBigWig.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #include <structmember.h>
 #include "bigWig.h"
 
-#define pyBigWigVersion "0.3.23"
+#define pyBigWigVersion "0.3.24"
 
 typedef struct {
     PyObject_HEAD
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index bd5921b..ea7bdb1 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ classifiers = [
 description = "A package for accessing bigWig files using libBigWig"
 keywords = ["bioinformatics", "bigWig", "bigBed"]
 name = "pyBigWig"
-version = "0.3.23"
+version = "0.3.24"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.9"