diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f342ad5f1..2095b2ae9 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 # our choice of version suffix is constrained by PEP 440
 # so we always append .99.ABI.SRC to most recent upstream version
 # the following line is matched from cibuild.py
-package_version = '7.0.7.99.1.1a3'
+package_version = '7.0.7.99.1.1'
 
 assert package_version.split('.')[-3]=='99', package_version