diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c0eba845..d4ce8854 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ numcodecs-wasm = { version = "0.2.4", path = "py/numcodecs-wasm", default-featur
 # workspace-internal codecs crates
 numcodecs-asinh = { version = "0.4", path = "codecs/asinh", default-features = false }
 numcodecs-bit-round = { version = "0.4", path = "codecs/bit-round", default-features = false }
-numcodecs-ebcc = { version = "0.3", path = "codecs/ebcc", default-features = false }
+numcodecs-ebcc = { version = "0.3.1-alpha", path = "codecs/ebcc", default-features = false }
 numcodecs-fixed-offset-scale = { version = "0.4", path = "codecs/fixed-offset-scale", default-features = false }
 numcodecs-fourier-network = { version = "0.3", path = "codecs/fourier-network", default-features = false }
 numcodecs-identity = { version = "0.4", path = "codecs/identity", default-features = false }
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ anyhow = { version = "1.0.93", default-features = false }
 burn = { version = "0.18", default-features = false }
 clap = { version = "4.6", default-features = false }
 convert_case = { version = "0.8", default-features = false }
-ebcc = { version = "0.3", default-features = false }
+ebcc = { version = "0.3.1-alpha", default-features = false }
 erased-serde = { version = "0.4", default-features = false }
 format_serde_error = { version = "0.3", default-features = false }
 indexmap = { version = "2.10", default-features = false }
diff --git a/codecs/ebcc/Cargo.toml b/codecs/ebcc/Cargo.toml
index e18f9e81..1f195bc7 100644
--- a/codecs/ebcc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/codecs/ebcc/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "numcodecs-ebcc"
-version = "0.3.0"
+version = "0.3.1-alpha"
 edition = { workspace = true }
 authors = { workspace = true }
 repository = { workspace = true }