diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index ba9eeb03..9b0be8b7 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Strobealign Changelog
 
-## development version
+## v0.13.0 (2024-03-04)
 
 * #394: Added option `--aemb` (abundance estimation for metagenomic binning),
   which makes strobealign output a table with estimated abundance values for
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 988b1235..92b07c18 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)
 
-project(strobealign VERSION 0.12.0)
+project(strobealign VERSION 0.13.0)
 include(FetchContent)
 
 option(ENABLE_AVX "Enable AVX2 support" OFF)
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 29f5ba25..af7ba6fe 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ If needed, run `make` with `VERBOSE=1` to get more logging output.
 After CMake has been run, you can use this one-liner to compile strobealign and
 run the tests:
 ```
-make -j -C build && tests/run.sh
+make -s -j -C build && tests/run.sh
 ```
 
 Whenever you make changes that could potentially affect mapping results, you can
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7dbdbc17..12d8eaef 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     name="strobealign",
     description="Python bindings for strobealign",
     license="MIT",
-    version="0.12.0",
+    version="0.13.0",
     packages=["strobealign"],
     package_dir={"": "src/python"},
     cmake_install_dir="src/python",