diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index e2504c710..ce91839ad 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "0.209.0"
+  ".": "0.209.1"
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f1fe0d57f..f93854e49 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.209.1 (2025-03-17)
+
+Full Changelog: [v0.209.0...v0.209.1](https://github.com/Increase/increase-python/compare/v0.209.0...v0.209.1)
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **ci:** ensure pip is always available ([#1038](https://github.com/Increase/increase-python/issues/1038)) ([ec41993](https://github.com/Increase/increase-python/commit/ec4199394ccffb472b43e31950c330101fda2962))
+
 ## 0.209.0 (2025-03-15)
 
 Full Changelog: [v0.208.0...v0.209.0](https://github.com/Increase/increase-python/compare/v0.208.0...v0.209.0)
diff --git a/bin/publish-pypi b/bin/publish-pypi
index 05bfccbb7..ebebf9165 100644
--- a/bin/publish-pypi
+++ b/bin/publish-pypi
@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@ mkdir -p dist
 rye build --clean
 # Patching importlib-metadata version until upstream library version is updated
 # https://github.com/pypa/twine/issues/977#issuecomment-2189800841
+"$HOME/.rye/self/bin/python3" -m ensurepip
 "$HOME/.rye/self/bin/python3" -m pip install 'importlib-metadata==7.2.1'
 rye publish --yes --token=$PYPI_TOKEN
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 83fe3f7a5..ff9e9212f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "increase"
-version = "0.209.0"
+version = "0.209.1"
 description = "The official Python library for the increase API"
 dynamic = ["readme"]
 license = "Apache-2.0"
diff --git a/src/increase/_version.py b/src/increase/_version.py
index 9ae988484..cf08108ff 100644
--- a/src/increase/_version.py
+++ b/src/increase/_version.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # File generated from our OpenAPI spec by Stainless. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.
 
 __title__ = "increase"
-__version__ = "0.209.0"  # x-release-please-version
+__version__ = "0.209.1"  # x-release-please-version