diff --git a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
index a252df2b6..fd703cb1e 100644
--- a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat-rpc-server"
-version = "1.98.0"
+version = "1.99.0"
 description = "DeltaChat JSON-RPC server"
 authors = ["Delta Chat Developers (ML) <delta@codespeak.net>"]
 edition = "2021"