diff --git a/openomics/__init__.py b/openomics/__init__.py
index 13ce7fe5..9cfae2be 100644
--- a/openomics/__init__.py
+++ b/openomics/__init__.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 __author__ = """Nhat (Jonny) Tran"""
 __email__ = 'nhat.tran@mavs.uta.edu'
-__version__ = '0.8.7'
+__version__ = '0.8.8'
 
 
 # Initialize configurations
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 8cab7b0b..334eac3c 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 0.8.7
+current_version = 0.8.8
 commit = True
 tag = True
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cb66a21b..250d508e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ def run(self):
 
 # Package meta-data.
 NAME = 'openomics'
-version='0.8.7'
+version='0.8.8'
 DESCRIPTION = 'OpenOmics provides a bioinformatics API and web-app platform integrate and visualize the multiomics and clinical data.'
 URL = 'https://github.com/BioMeCIS-Lab/OpenOmics'
 EMAIL = 'nhat.tran@mavs.uta.edu'