diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 468e691..f1905d5 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "stam-tools"
-version = "0.8.3"
+version = "0.9.0"
 edition = "2021"
 authors = ["Maarten van Gompel <proycon@anaproy.nl>"]
 description = "Command-line tools for working with stand-off annotations on text (STAM)"
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ repository = "https://github.com/annotation/stam-tools"
 keywords = [ "text-processing", "annotation", "linguistics", "standoff", "nlp"]
 
 [dependencies]
-stam = { version = "0.16.2" }
+stam = { version = "0.16.3" }
 clap = "3.2.23"
 html-escape = "0.2.13"
 seal = "0.1.5"