diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c3545b6..e8a910e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def read_requirements(req="base.txt"):
 
 setup(
     name="awslambdaric",
-    version="1.1.1",
+    version="1.2.1",
     author="Amazon Web Services",
     description="AWS Lambda Runtime Interface Client for Python",
     long_description=read("README.md"),