diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index dc72fa7..030fb43 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 # We don't declare our dependency on transformers here because we build with
 # different packages for different variants
 
-VERSION = "2.0.0"
+VERSION = "2.1.0"
 
 
 # Ubuntu packages
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 # libavcodec-extra : libavcodec-extra  inculdes additional codecs for ffmpeg
 
 install_requires = [
-    "sagemaker-inference>=1.5.11",
+    "sagemaker-inference>=1.8.0",
     "huggingface_hub>=0.0.8",
     "retrying",
     "numpy",