diff --git a/reg/VERSION b/reg/VERSION
index 0b51e27..b459d08 100644
--- a/reg/VERSION
+++ b/reg/VERSION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ## deployable containers have a semantic and build tag
 # semantic version tag: major.minor
 # build version tag: timestamp
-VER=1.0.2
+VER=1.0.3
 TAGS="${VER} ${VER}-$(date -u +"%Y%m%dT%H%M%S")"
 unset VER