diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1f9fa22..0af10ad 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 from packaging.version import Version
 from setuptools import setup, Extension
 
-VERSION = "1.3.18"
+VERSION = "1.3.18.post0"
 
 SUMMARY = "High quality drawing interface for PIL."