diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index 2ee38973..473fb9ae 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [bumpversion]
 commit = True
 tag = True
-current_version = 1.96
+current_version = 1.97
 parse = (?P<major>\d+)\.(?P<minor>\d+)(\.(?P<patch>\d+)(\-(?P<release>[a-z]+))?)?
 serialize = 
 	{major}.{minor}
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 83f18367..d2a8308c 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ for _variant in "${_variants[@]}"; do
 	pkgname+=(kvmd-platform-$_platform-$_board)
 done
 pkgbase=kvmd
-pkgver=1.96
+pkgver=1.97
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="The main Pi-KVM daemon"
 url="https://github.com/pikvm/kvmd"
diff --git a/kvmd/__init__.py b/kvmd/__init__.py
index ca33f51d..b7fcbc8c 100644
--- a/kvmd/__init__.py
+++ b/kvmd/__init__.py
@@ -20,4 +20,4 @@
 # ========================================================================== #
 
 
-__version__ = "1.96"
+__version__ = "1.97"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a8b90cc2..5ea86e92 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ def main() -> None:
 
     setup(
         name="kvmd",
-        version="1.96",
+        version="1.97",
         url="https://github.com/pikvm/kvmd",
         license="GPLv3",
         author="Maxim Devaev",