diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 15a8d4e..e121500 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "stjames"
-version = "0.0.40"
+version = "0.0.41"
 description = "standardized JSON atom/molecule encoding scheme"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.11"