diff --git a/oletools/olevba.py b/oletools/olevba.py
index a5e7486..4822932 100644
--- a/oletools/olevba.py
+++ b/oletools/olevba.py
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ from __future__ import print_function
 # 2020-06-11       PL: - fixed issue #575 when decompressing raw chunks in VBA
 # 2020-09-03       MX: - fixed issue #602 monkeypatch in email package
 
-__version__ = '0.56dev7'
+__version__ = '0.56dev9'
 
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # TODO:
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b3d5835..8d5425e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ import os, fnmatch
 #--- METADATA -----------------------------------------------------------------
 
 name         = "oletools"
-version      = '0.56dev8'
+version      = '0.56dev9'
 desc         = "Python tools to analyze security characteristics of MS Office and OLE files (also called Structured Storage, Compound File Binary Format or Compound Document File Format), for Malware Analysis and Incident Response #DFIR"
 long_desc    = open('oletools/README.rst').read()
 author       = "Philippe Lagadec"