diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ce5327cc57f571e8778c7fe227cb936e6f584849_c2V0dXAucHk=..979b862b87d216baec213b24b97029f0c26e8c90_c2V0dXAucHk= 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
-VERSION = '1.4'
+VERSION = '1.5'
 DESCRIPTION = "Simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python"
 LONG_DESCRIPTION = """
 simplejson is a simple, fast, complete, correct and extensible
diff --git a/simplejson/__init__.py b/simplejson/__init__.py
index ce5327cc57f571e8778c7fe227cb936e6f584849_c2ltcGxlanNvbi9fX2luaXRfXy5weQ==..979b862b87d216baec213b24b97029f0c26e8c90_c2ltcGxlanNvbi9fX2luaXRfXy5weQ== 100644
--- a/simplejson/__init__.py
+++ b/simplejson/__init__.py
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
 Note that the JSON produced by this module is a subset of YAML,
 so it may be used as a serializer for that as well.
 """
-__version__ = '1.4'
+__version__ = '1.5'
 __all__ = [
     'dump', 'dumps', 'load', 'loads',
     'JSONDecoder', 'JSONEncoder',