diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5e64b6f..9aca632 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "sql-redis"
-version = "0.1.0"
+version = "0.1.1"
 description = "SQL to Redis command translation utility"
 authors = [{ name = "Redis Inc.", email = "applied.ai@redis.com" }]
 requires-python = ">=3.9,<3.14"
diff --git a/sql_redis/__init__.py b/sql_redis/__init__.py
index 8d6d947..1eacaf4 100644
--- a/sql_redis/__init__.py
+++ b/sql_redis/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 """SQL to Redis command translation utility."""
 
 from sql_redis.translator import TranslatedQuery, Translator
+from sql_redis.version import __version__
 
-__all__ = ["Translator", "TranslatedQuery"]
+__all__ = ["Translator", "TranslatedQuery", "__version__"]
diff --git a/sql_redis/query_builder.py b/sql_redis/query_builder.py
index 68db63a..1b1a1f7 100644
--- a/sql_redis/query_builder.py
+++ b/sql_redis/query_builder.py
@@ -2,6 +2,48 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import warnings
+
+# Redis default stopwords - these are not indexed by default
+# See: https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/ai/search-and-query/advanced-concepts/stopwords/
+REDIS_DEFAULT_STOPWORDS = frozenset(
+    {
+        "a",
+        "is",
+        "the",
+        "an",
+        "and",
+        "are",
+        "as",
+        "at",
+        "be",
+        "but",
+        "by",
+        "for",
+        "if",
+        "in",
+        "into",
+        "it",
+        "no",
+        "not",
+        "of",
+        "on",
+        "or",
+        "such",
+        "that",
+        "their",
+        "then",
+        "there",
+        "these",
+        "they",
+        "this",
+        "to",
+        "was",
+        "will",
+        "with",
+    }
+)
+
 
 class QueryBuilder:
     """Builds RediSearch query syntax from conditions."""
@@ -42,8 +84,27 @@ def build_text_condition(
             # Wrap with % for fuzzy matching
             search_value = f"%{value}%"
         elif " " in value:
-            # Phrase search - wrap in quotes
-            search_value = f'"{value}"'
+            # Phrase search - filter stopwords and wrap in quotes
+            words = value.split()
+            removed_stopwords = [
+                w for w in words if w.lower() in REDIS_DEFAULT_STOPWORDS
+            ]
+            filtered_words = [
+                w for w in words if w.lower() not in REDIS_DEFAULT_STOPWORDS
+            ]
+
+            if removed_stopwords:
+                warnings.warn(
+                    f"Stopwords {removed_stopwords} were removed from phrase search '{value}'. "
+                    "By default, Redis does not index stopwords. "
+                    "To include stopwords in your index, create it with STOPWORDS 0.",
+                    UserWarning,
+                    stacklevel=2,
+                )
+
+            # Use filtered phrase, or original if all words were stopwords
+            phrase = " ".join(filtered_words) if filtered_words else value
+            search_value = f'"{phrase}"'
         else:
             search_value = value
 
diff --git a/sql_redis/version.py b/sql_redis/version.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8a79f95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sql_redis/version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+try:
+    from importlib.metadata import PackageNotFoundError, version
+except ImportError:
+    # Python < 3.8 fallback
+    from importlib_metadata import PackageNotFoundError, version  # type: ignore
+
+try:
+    __version__ = version("sql-redis")
+except PackageNotFoundError:
+    # Package is not installed (e.g., during development)
+    __version__ = "0.0.0.dev"
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 2e8b0ca..914c7bf 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "sql-redis"
-version = "0.1.0"
+version = "0.1.1"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "redis", version = "7.0.1", source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }, marker = "python_full_version < '3.10'" },