diff --git a/extra/shutils/pypi.sh b/extra/shutils/pypi.sh
index fdd3c1eca..a1da1431e 100644
--- a/extra/shutils/pypi.sh
+++ b/extra/shutils/pypi.sh
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ Links
 EOF
 sed -i "s/^VERSION =.*/VERSION = \"$VERSION\"/g" sqlmap/lib/core/settings.py
 sed -i "s/^TYPE =.*/TYPE = \"$TYPE\"/g" sqlmap/lib/core/settings.py
+sed -i "s/.*lib\/core\/settings\.py/`md5sum sqlmap/lib/core/settings.py | cut -d ' ' -f 1`  lib\/core\/settings\.py/g" sqlmap/txt/checksum.md5
 for file in $(find sqlmap -type f | grep -v -E "\.(git|yml)"); do echo include $file >> MANIFEST.in; done
 python setup.py sdist upload
 rm -rf $TMP_DIR
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/core/settings.py b/lib/core/settings.py
index f81060163..756292c15 100644
--- a/lib/core/settings.py
+++ b/lib/core/settings.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ from lib.core.enums import OS
 from lib.core.revision import getRevisionNumber
 
 # sqlmap version (<major>.<minor>.<month>.<monthly commit>)
-VERSION = "1.0.8.22"
+VERSION = "1.0.8.23"
 REVISION = getRevisionNumber()
 TYPE = "dev" if VERSION.count('.') > 2 and VERSION.split('.')[-1] != '0' else "stable"
 TYPE_COLORS = {"dev": 33, "stable": 90, "pip": 34}
diff --git a/txt/checksum.md5 b/txt/checksum.md5
index 562dea3e3..321bf2147 100644
--- a/txt/checksum.md5
+++ b/txt/checksum.md5
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ e60456db5380840a586654344003d4e6  lib/core/readlineng.py
 5ef56abb8671c2ca6ceecb208258e360  lib/core/replication.py
 99a2b496b9d5b546b335653ca801153f  lib/core/revision.py
 7c15dd2777af4dac2c89cab6df17462e  lib/core/session.py
-d8c4eb236d50ded308d4e72e06b6c4e7  lib/core/settings.py
+9f25955b98db7ea85a6f0dc518f10800  lib/core/settings.py
 7af83e4f18cab6dff5e67840eb65be80  lib/core/shell.py
 23657cd7d924e3c6d225719865855827  lib/core/subprocessng.py
 0bc2fae1dec18cdd11954b22358293f2  lib/core/target.py