diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 715a16d..6376e5e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ singularity exec "$URI" gramtools
 We recommend installing inside a virtual environment:
 ```sh
 python -m venv venv_gramtools && source venv_gramtools/bin/activate
-VERSION="1.9.0"
+VERSION="1.10.0"
 wget -O - "https://github.com/iqbal-lab-org/gramtools/releases/download/v${VERSION}/gramtools-${VERSION}.tar.gz" | tar xfz -
 pip install ./gramtools-"${VERSION}"
 ```
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index a0fb096..154577c 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 name = gramtools
 author = Brice Letcher
 author_email = bletcher@ebi.ac.uk
-version = 1.9.0
+version = 1.10.0
 description = Genome inference and genotyping with genome graphs
 long_description = file: README.md
 long_description_content_type = text/markdown