diff --git a/misc/tag-release.sh b/misc/tag-release.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b473bbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/misc/tag-release.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+version_tag="$(pdm show --version)"
+git tag -a "$version_tag" -m "$version_tag"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a5fbd75..0c7ff9b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "lmstudio"
-version = "1.0.0b1"
+version = "1.0.0rc1"
 description = "LM Studio Python SDK (pre-release public alpha)"
 authors = [
     {name = "LM Studio", email = "team@lmstudio.ai"},
diff --git a/src/lmstudio/__init__.py b/src/lmstudio/__init__.py
index 58c1ae4..1a5712f 100644
--- a/src/lmstudio/__init__.py
+++ b/src/lmstudio/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """LM Studio Python SDK."""
 
-__version__ = "1.0.0b1"
+__version__ = "1.0.0rc1"
 
 
 # In addition to publishing the main SDK client API,