diff --git a/npm/darwin-arm64/package.json b/npm/darwin-arm64/package.json
index ad7a8c96..da0f65d3 100644
--- a/npm/darwin-arm64/package.json
+++ b/npm/darwin-arm64/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@img/sharp-darwin-arm64",
-  "version": "0.33.0",
+  "version": "0.33.1-rc.0",
   "description": "Prebuilt sharp for use with macOS 64-bit ARM",
   "author": "Lovell Fuller <npm@lovell.info>",
   "homepage": "https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com",
diff --git a/npm/darwin-x64/package.json b/npm/darwin-x64/package.json
index 67aa44e3..d32f24e0 100644
--- a/npm/darwin-x64/package.json
+++ b/npm/darwin-x64/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@img/sharp-darwin-x64",
-  "version": "0.33.0",
+  "version": "0.33.1-rc.0",
   "description": "Prebuilt sharp for use with macOS x64",
   "author": "Lovell Fuller <npm@lovell.info>",
   "homepage": "https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com",
diff --git a/npm/linux-arm/package.json b/npm/linux-arm/package.json
index 6bdab7f8..eaa57a43 100644
--- a/npm/linux-arm/package.json
+++ b/npm/linux-arm/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@img/sharp-linux-arm",
-  "version": "0.33.0",
+  "version": "0.33.1-rc.0",
   "description": "Prebuilt sharp for use with Linux (glibc) ARM (32-bit)",
   "author": "Lovell Fuller <npm@lovell.info>",
   "homepage": "https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com",
diff --git a/npm/linux-arm64/package.json b/npm/linux-arm64/package.json
index 237d2c03..45fa5604 100644
--- a/npm/linux-arm64/package.json
+++ b/npm/linux-arm64/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@img/sharp-linux-arm64",
-  "version": "0.33.0",
+  "version": "0.33.1-rc.0",
   "description": "Prebuilt sharp for use with Linux (glibc) 64-bit ARM",
   "author": "Lovell Fuller <npm@lovell.info>",
   "homepage": "https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com",
diff --git a/npm/linux-s390x/package.json b/npm/linux-s390x/package.json
index 3f7b55a2..9d1b8770 100644
--- a/npm/linux-s390x/package.json
+++ b/npm/linux-s390x/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@img/sharp-linux-s390x",
-  "version": "0.33.0",
+  "version": "0.33.1-rc.0",
   "description": "Prebuilt sharp for use with Linux (glibc) s390x",
   "author": "Lovell Fuller <npm@lovell.info>",
   "homepage": "https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com",
diff --git a/npm/linux-x64/package.json b/npm/linux-x64/package.json
index 719f5cd5..274f0127 100644
--- a/npm/linux-x64/package.json
+++ b/npm/linux-x64/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@img/sharp-linux-x64",
-  "version": "0.33.0",
+  "version": "0.33.1-rc.0",
   "description": "Prebuilt sharp for use with Linux (glibc) x64",
   "author": "Lovell Fuller <npm@lovell.info>",
   "homepage": "https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com",
diff --git a/npm/linuxmusl-arm64/package.json b/npm/linuxmusl-arm64/package.json
index 4fc448fe..09258af3 100644
--- a/npm/linuxmusl-arm64/package.json
+++ b/npm/linuxmusl-arm64/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@img/sharp-linuxmusl-arm64",
-  "version": "0.33.0",
+  "version": "0.33.1-rc.0",
   "description": "Prebuilt sharp for use with Linux (musl) 64-bit ARM",
   "author": "Lovell Fuller <npm@lovell.info>",
   "homepage": "https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com",
diff --git a/npm/linuxmusl-x64/package.json b/npm/linuxmusl-x64/package.json
index b16d6935..a655e7d2 100644
--- a/npm/linuxmusl-x64/package.json
+++ b/npm/linuxmusl-x64/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@img/sharp-linuxmusl-x64",
-  "version": "0.33.0",
+  "version": "0.33.1-rc.0",
   "description": "Prebuilt sharp for use with Linux (musl) x64",
   "author": "Lovell Fuller <npm@lovell.info>",
   "homepage": "https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com",
diff --git a/npm/package.json b/npm/package.json
index 4ba56a55..bacdccc8 100644
--- a/npm/package.json
+++ b/npm/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@img/sharp",
-  "version": "0.33.0",
+  "version": "0.33.1-rc.0",
   "private": "true",
   "workspaces": [
     "darwin-arm64",
diff --git a/npm/wasm32/package.json b/npm/wasm32/package.json
index feb9931a..12acc021 100644
--- a/npm/wasm32/package.json
+++ b/npm/wasm32/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@img/sharp-wasm32",
-  "version": "0.33.0",
+  "version": "0.33.1-rc.0",
   "description": "Prebuilt sharp for use with wasm32",
   "author": "Lovell Fuller <npm@lovell.info>",
   "homepage": "https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com",
diff --git a/npm/win32-ia32/package.json b/npm/win32-ia32/package.json
index 1e7a8e25..f68a3cf6 100644
--- a/npm/win32-ia32/package.json
+++ b/npm/win32-ia32/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@img/sharp-win32-ia32",
-  "version": "0.33.0",
+  "version": "0.33.1-rc.0",
   "description": "Prebuilt sharp for use with Windows x86 (32-bit)",
   "author": "Lovell Fuller <npm@lovell.info>",
   "homepage": "https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com",
diff --git a/npm/win32-x64/package.json b/npm/win32-x64/package.json
index 647c2c74..c407fcfb 100644
--- a/npm/win32-x64/package.json
+++ b/npm/win32-x64/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@img/sharp-win32-x64",
-  "version": "0.33.0",
+  "version": "0.33.1-rc.0",
   "description": "Prebuilt sharp for use with Windows x64",
   "author": "Lovell Fuller <npm@lovell.info>",
   "homepage": "https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 292cea61..bdcc105a 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "sharp",
   "description": "High performance Node.js image processing, the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, AVIF and TIFF images",
-  "version": "0.33.0",
+  "version": "0.33.1-rc.0",
   "author": "Lovell Fuller <npm@lovell.info>",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/lovell/sharp",
   "contributors": [
@@ -141,8 +141,8 @@
     "semver": "^7.5.4"
   },
   "optionalDependencies": {
-    "@img/sharp-darwin-arm64": "0.33.0",
-    "@img/sharp-darwin-x64": "0.33.0",
+    "@img/sharp-darwin-arm64": "0.33.1-rc.0",
+    "@img/sharp-darwin-x64": "0.33.1-rc.0",
     "@img/sharp-libvips-darwin-arm64": "1.0.0",
     "@img/sharp-libvips-darwin-x64": "1.0.0",
     "@img/sharp-libvips-linux-arm": "1.0.0",
@@ -151,15 +151,15 @@
     "@img/sharp-libvips-linux-x64": "1.0.0",
     "@img/sharp-libvips-linuxmusl-arm64": "1.0.0",
     "@img/sharp-libvips-linuxmusl-x64": "1.0.0",
-    "@img/sharp-linux-arm": "0.33.0",
-    "@img/sharp-linux-arm64": "0.33.0",
-    "@img/sharp-linux-s390x": "0.33.0",
-    "@img/sharp-linux-x64": "0.33.0",
-    "@img/sharp-linuxmusl-arm64": "0.33.0",
-    "@img/sharp-linuxmusl-x64": "0.33.0",
-    "@img/sharp-wasm32": "0.33.0",
-    "@img/sharp-win32-ia32": "0.33.0",
-    "@img/sharp-win32-x64": "0.33.0"
+    "@img/sharp-linux-arm": "0.33.1-rc.0",
+    "@img/sharp-linux-arm64": "0.33.1-rc.0",
+    "@img/sharp-linux-s390x": "0.33.1-rc.0",
+    "@img/sharp-linux-x64": "0.33.1-rc.0",
+    "@img/sharp-linuxmusl-arm64": "0.33.1-rc.0",
+    "@img/sharp-linuxmusl-x64": "0.33.1-rc.0",
+    "@img/sharp-wasm32": "0.33.1-rc.0",
+    "@img/sharp-win32-ia32": "0.33.1-rc.0",
+    "@img/sharp-win32-x64": "0.33.1-rc.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@emnapi/runtime": "^0.44.0",