diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index 9dacfa2..135972f 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 0.3.0
+current_version = 0.3.1
 commit = True
 tag = True
 
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 88778f6..279537d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+0.3.1 (2026-07-01)
+------------------
+
+* Relax ``mcp`` dependency pin from ``~=1.9.0`` to ``>=1.9.0,<2.0.0`` so
+  downstream consumers can use newer ``mcp`` releases. Only the stable
+  client API (``ClientSession``, ``StdioServerParameters``, ``stdio_client``)
+  is used, which is unchanged across ``mcp`` 1.x.
+
 0.0.0 (2024-01-25)
 ------------------
 
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 761bda0..1b81fcd 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 year = "2024"
 author = "Altimate Inc."
 copyright = f"{year}, {author}"
-version = release = "0.3.0"
+version = release = "0.3.1"
 
 pygments_style = "trac"
 templates_path = ["."]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bc8f081..8060b18 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ def read(*names, **kwargs):
 
 setup(
     name="altimate-datapilot-cli",
-    version="0.3.0",
+    version="0.3.1",
     license="MIT",
     description="Assistant for Data Teams",
     long_description="{}\n{}".format(
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def read(*names, **kwargs):
         "tabulate~=0.9.0",
         "requests>=2.31",
         "sqlglot[c]==30.7.0",
-        "mcp~=1.9.0",
+        "mcp>=1.9.0,<2.0.0",
         "pyperclip~=1.8.2",
         "python-dotenv~=1.0.0",
     ],
diff --git a/src/datapilot/__init__.py b/src/datapilot/__init__.py
index 493f741..260c070 100644
--- a/src/datapilot/__init__.py
+++ b/src/datapilot/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.3.0"
+__version__ = "0.3.1"