diff --git a/crawl4ai/__version__.py b/crawl4ai/__version__.py
index 4a3ac419..043cf654 100644
--- a/crawl4ai/__version__.py
+++ b/crawl4ai/__version__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # crawl4ai/__version__.py
 
 # This is the version that will be used for stable releases
-__version__ = "0.7.1"
+__version__ = "0.7.2"
 
 # For nightly builds, this gets set during build process
 __nightly_version__ = None