diff --git a/c2pa-native-version.txt b/c2pa-native-version.txt
index 3979be47..8f6f2e02 100644
--- a/c2pa-native-version.txt
+++ b/c2pa-native-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-c2pa-v0.65.0
+c2pa-v0.65.1
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 45d0e3d4..e3c873f6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "c2pa-python"
-version = "0.23.0"
+version = "0.23.1"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 description = "Python bindings for the C2PA Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) library"
 readme = { file = "README.md", content-type = "text/markdown" }
diff --git a/tests/test_unit_tests.py b/tests/test_unit_tests.py
index 567b8fd3..1b0b785f 100644
--- a/tests/test_unit_tests.py
+++ b/tests/test_unit_tests.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 
 class TestC2paSdk(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_sdk_version(self):
-        self.assertIn("0.65.0", sdk_version())
+        self.assertIn("0.65.1", sdk_version())
 
 
 class TestReader(unittest.TestCase):