diff --git a/ringhold/VERSION b/ringhold/VERSION
index 3b882d6e..d849b8f3 100644
--- a/ringhold/VERSION
+++ b/ringhold/VERSION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ## deployable containers have a semantic and build tag
 # semantic version tag: major.minor[.patch]
 # build version tag: timestamp
-VER=0.3.0
+VER=1.0.0
 TAGS="${VER} ${VER}-$(date --utc +"%Y%m%dT%H%M%S")"
 unset VER