diff --git a/src/sparseconverter/__init__.py b/src/sparseconverter/__init__.py
index d2d117f..3054abb 100644
--- a/src/sparseconverter/__init__.py
+++ b/src/sparseconverter/__init__.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 import sparse
 
 
-__version__ = '0.2.0.dev0'
+__version__ = '0.2.0rc1'
 
 NUMPY = 'numpy'
 NUMPY_MATRIX = 'numpy.matrix'