diff --git a/klayout_dot_config/grain.xml b/klayout_dot_config/grain.xml
index 8e8645c2..99eebac9 100644
--- a/klayout_dot_config/grain.xml
+++ b/klayout_dot_config/grain.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <salt-grain>
  <name>siepic_tools</name>
- <version>0.5.17</version>
+ <version>0.5.18</version>
  <api-version>0.27</api-version>
  <title>SiEPIC Tools</title>
  <doc>Tools for designing Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits, including waveguides, component simulations, functional verification, DRC verification, Functional verification, netlist extraction, circuit simulations. Layout can be implemented graphically or by programming in Python using the SiEPIC functions and KLayout Python API. Framework and examples for creating layouts using scripts. Includes a generic PDK (GSiP). Other PDKs are installed separately, and depend on SiEPIC-Tools.</doc>
diff --git a/klayout_dot_config/python/SiEPIC/__init__.py b/klayout_dot_config/python/SiEPIC/__init__.py
index 9dc719ea..0b5492a8 100644
--- a/klayout_dot_config/python/SiEPIC/__init__.py
+++ b/klayout_dot_config/python/SiEPIC/__init__.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 SiEPIC-Tools package for KLayout
 '''
 
-__version__ = "0.5.17"
+__version__ = "0.5.18"
 
 print("KLayout SiEPIC-Tools version %s" %__version__)
 
diff --git a/klayout_dot_config/python/pyproject.toml b/klayout_dot_config/python/pyproject.toml
index a91d7fc1..d34268e6 100644
--- a/klayout_dot_config/python/pyproject.toml
+++ b/klayout_dot_config/python/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "SiEPIC"
-version = "0.5.17"
+version = "0.5.18"
 authors = [
   { name="Lukas Chrostowski", email="lukasc@ece.ubc.ca" },
 ]
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "scipy",
   "pandas",
   "requests",
+  "IPython",
   "klayout"] 
 
 [project.urls]