diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 868c6c7f..0eabf775 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "oobabot"
-version = "0.1.5"
+version = "0.1.6"
 description = "A Discord bot which talks to Large Language Model AIs running on oobabooga's text-generation-webui"
 authors = ["Christopher Rude <chris@rudesoftware.net>"]
 license = "MIT"
diff --git a/src/oobabot/__init__.py b/src/oobabot/__init__.py
index 18799760..84b7f02e 100644
--- a/src/oobabot/__init__.py
+++ b/src/oobabot/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # oobabot/__init__.py
 
 # todo: sync this up automatically
-__version__ = "0.1.5"
+__version__ = "0.1.6"