diff --git a/src/include/VERSION b/src/include/VERSION
index 2dbe72c8..f7064a02 100644
--- a/src/include/VERSION
+++ b/src/include/VERSION
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 The Containers library is hosted at: github.com/bkthomps/Containers
 The author is: Bailey Thompson
-This local version is: v1.0.0
-
+This local version is: v1.0.1