diff --git a/src/netCDF4/_netCDF4.pyx b/src/netCDF4/_netCDF4.pyx
index aacb344dd..2d9a16628 100644
--- a/src/netCDF4/_netCDF4.pyx
+++ b/src/netCDF4/_netCDF4.pyx
@@ -1272,7 +1272,7 @@ import sys
 import functools
 from typing import Union
 
-__version__ = "1.7.1"
+__version__ = "1.7.1.post1"
 
 # Initialize numpy
 import posixpath