diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def get_install_requirements(path):
 
 
 setup(name='confluent-kafka',
-      version='1.0.1rc1',
+      version='1.0.1',
       description='Confluent\'s Python client for Apache Kafka',
       author='Confluent Inc',
       author_email='support@confluent.io',
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