diff --git a/R/zzz.R b/R/zzz.R
index 898b631f..afa9c726 100644
--- a/R/zzz.R
+++ b/R/zzz.R
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
       # Ideally we would source tools/installPythonClient.R to not
       # have to duplicate the synapseclient install code
       # system2(paste("Rscript ", getwd(), "/tools/installPythonClient.R ", getwd(), sep=""))
-      PYTHON_CLIENT_VERSION <- '3.1.0'
+      PYTHON_CLIENT_VERSION <- '3.1.1'
       reticulate::virtualenv_create('r-reticulate')
       reticulate::use_virtualenv('r-reticulate')
       reticulate::py_install(c("requests<3", "pandas~=2.0.0", "pysftp", "jinja2", "markupsafe"))
diff --git a/tools/installPythonClient.R b/tools/installPythonClient.R
index c75d5cbe..ed6d6e71 100644
--- a/tools/installPythonClient.R
+++ b/tools/installPythonClient.R
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # Author: bhoff
 ###############################################################################
 
-PYTHON_CLIENT_VERSION <- '3.1.0'
+PYTHON_CLIENT_VERSION <- '3.1.1'
 
 args <- commandArgs(trailingOnly = TRUE)
 baseDir<-args[1]