diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index cd6ef1e9..927e221a 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # CHANGES.md
 
-## v0.2.3.dev
+## v0.2.4
 
 * `ANIm` now uses `delta-filter` to remove alignments of repeat regions (issue #91)
 * added `--filter_exe` option to specify location of `delta-filter` utility (issue #91)
diff --git a/pyani/__init__.py b/pyani/__init__.py
index f2053c5d..27cbeb33 100644
--- a/pyani/__init__.py
+++ b/pyani/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # python package version
 # should match r"^__version__ = '(?P<version>[^']+)'$" for setup.py
-__version__ = '0.2.3.dev'
+__version__ = '0.2.4'