diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 439204e..b985174 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>org.iota</groupId>
     <artifactId>jota</artifactId>
-    <version>0.9.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.9.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <name>JOTA</name>
     <description>JOTA library is a simple Java wrapper around IOTA Node's JSON-REST HTTP interface.</description>