diff --git a/youcat/VERSION b/youcat/VERSION
index 7880d1f8..efbd21bb 100644
--- a/youcat/VERSION
+++ b/youcat/VERSION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ## deployable containers have a semantic and build tag
 # semantic version tag: major.minor
 # build version tag: timestamp
-VER=0.9.5
+VER=0.9.6
 TAGS="${VER} ${VER}-$(date --utc +"%Y%m%dT%H%M%S")"
 unset VER