diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 617584a..c4049c2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "patchworks"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.3.0"
 description = "Tiled processing of arbitrarily large images with globally consistent labels"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = { text = "MIT" }
diff --git a/src/patchworks/__init__.py b/src/patchworks/__init__.py
index a47fada..d108ef6 100644
--- a/src/patchworks/__init__.py
+++ b/src/patchworks/__init__.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 from ._merge import merge_tile_labels
 from ._relabel import relabel_sequential_array, relabel_sequential_zarr
 
-__version__ = "0.2.0"
+__version__ = "0.3.0"
 __all__ = [
     "tile_process",
     "merge_tile_labels",