diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b02fd2a9..f721ae8c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="cheetah-accelerator",
-    version="0.5.17",
+    version="0.5.18",
     author="Jan Kaiser & Oliver Stein",
     author_email="jan.kaiser@desy.de",
     url="https://github.com/desy-ml/cheetah",