diff --git a/metadata.rb b/metadata.rb
index c0d8387..9c2cbf7 100644
--- a/metadata.rb
+++ b/metadata.rb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 license           'Apache 2.0'
 description       'Installs memcached and provides a define to set up an instance of memcache via runit'
 long_description  IO.read(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'README.md'))
-version           '1.7.2'
+version           '1.7.3'
 
 depends           'runit', '~> 1.0'
 depends           'yum', '~> 3.0'