diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index 79e2e55..d192a0f 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -52,4 +52,4 @@ authors:
 date-released: 2020-08-05
 doi: "10.7554/eLife.61909"
 license: "AGPL-3.0-or-later"
-version:  "1.1.0"
+version:  "1.1.1rc1"
diff --git a/dlclive/version.py b/dlclive/version.py
index 15d48f3..0c4c1d8 100644
--- a/dlclive/version.py
+++ b/dlclive/version.py
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@
 """
 
 
-__version__ = "1.1.0"
+__version__ = "1.1.1rc1"
 VERSION = __version__
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8ce8c13..b1d5132 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "deeplabcut-live"
-version = "1.1.0"
+version = "1.1.1rc1"
 description = "Class to load exported DeepLabCut networks and perform pose estimation on single frames (from a camera feed)"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10,<3.13"