diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2388ab1..ebcce19 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "sqlcipher3-wheels"
-version = "0.5.5.post0"
+version = "0.5.6"
 description = "DB-API 2.0 interface for SQLCipher 3.x"
 readme = { content-type = "text/markdown", file = "README.md" }
 authors = [
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ac34875..1dd88cf 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         # With pyproject.toml, all are not necessary except ext_modules
         # However, they are kept for building python 3.6 wheels
         name="sqlcipher3-wheels",
-        version="0.5.5.post0",
+        version="0.5.6",
         package_dir={"sqlcipher3": "sqlcipher3"},
         packages=["sqlcipher3"],
         ext_modules=[module],