diff --git a/.github/workflows/gguf-publish.yml b/.github/workflows/gguf-publish.yml
index a1fba046a..fb8eab3cd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/gguf-publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/gguf-publish.yml
@@ -29,10 +29,10 @@ jobs:
       uses: actions/setup-python@v6
       with:
         python-version: '3.11'
+        pip-install: poetry==2.4.0
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         cd gguf-py
-        python -m pip install poetry==2.3.2
         poetry install
 
     - name: Build package
diff --git a/gguf-py/pyproject.toml b/gguf-py/pyproject.toml
index 8a0783e64..b2a36460a 100644
--- a/gguf-py/pyproject.toml
+++ b/gguf-py/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 [project]
 name = "gguf"
+version = "0.19.0"
 description = "Read and write ML models in GGUF for GGML"
 keywords = ["ggml", "gguf", "llama.cpp"]
-version = "0.18.0"
 dynamic = ["classifiers"]
 readme = "README.md"
 authors = [{name = "GGML", email = "ggml@ggml.ai"}]