diff --git a/RELEASES.md b/RELEASES.md
index 3e6014315..f91b42bc0 100644
--- a/RELEASES.md
+++ b/RELEASES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Releases
 
+## 0.9.7.post1
+
+This release is identical to 0.9.7 but will allow the upload of a source distribution to PyPI and release on conda-forge (that requires a source distribution).
+
+
 ## 0.9.7
 
 This release contains several bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as updates to the documentation and examples and tests. We provide below a summary of the main new features and closed issues.
diff --git a/ot/__init__.py b/ot/__init__.py
index d867daae4..bdd2aadd7 100644
--- a/ot/__init__.py
+++ b/ot/__init__.py
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 from .utils import dist, unif, tic, toc, toq
 
 
-__version__ = "0.9.7"
+__version__ = "0.9.7.post1"
 
 __all__ = [
     "emd",