diff --git a/bindings/python/py_src/tokenizers/__init__.py b/bindings/python/py_src/tokenizers/__init__.py
index 745a6a4c..e05bf164 100644
--- a/bindings/python/py_src/tokenizers/__init__.py
+++ b/bindings/python/py_src/tokenizers/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "0.13.4.rc1"
+__version__ = "0.13.4.rc2"
 
 from enum import Enum
 from typing import List, Tuple, Union
diff --git a/bindings/python/setup.py b/bindings/python/setup.py
index 4f270415..f6b4c902 100644
--- a/bindings/python/setup.py
+++ b/bindings/python/setup.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ extras["dev"] = extras["testing"]
 
 setup(
     name="tokenizers",
-    version="0.13.4.rc1",
+    version="0.13.4.rc2",
     description="Fast and Customizable Tokenizers",
     long_description=open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8").read(),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
diff --git a/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/mod.rs b/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/mod.rs
index 2c4382f5..ed0ade5e 100644
--- a/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/mod.rs
+++ b/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/mod.rs
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ where
         if let Some(trunc_params) = &trunc {
             let n_added_tokens = self.get_n_added_tokens(false);
             let effective_max_length = trunc_params.max_length - n_added_tokens;
-            if effective_max_length <= trunc_params.stride {
+            if effective_max_length < trunc_params.stride {
                 return Err(Box::new(TruncationParamError(format!(
                     "tokenizer stride set to {}, which is greater than or equal to its effective max length of {} (= {} original max length - {} added special tokens), ",
                     trunc_params.stride, effective_max_length, trunc_params.max_length, n_added_tokens