diff --git a/lib/shellwords.rb b/lib/shellwords.rb
index 58f4af26ae..067432e374 100644
--- a/lib/shellwords.rb
+++ b/lib/shellwords.rb
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 # 1: {IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, 2016 Edition, the Shell & Utilities volume}[http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/contents.html]
 
 module Shellwords
-  VERSION = "0.1.0"
+  VERSION = "0.2.0"
 
   # Splits a string into an array of tokens in the same way the UNIX
   # Bourne shell does.