diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 6ee94950..5cd35489 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ if(POLICY CMP0167)
 endif()
 
 set (opendht_VERSION_MAJOR 4)
-set (opendht_VERSION_MINOR 3.0)
+set (opendht_VERSION_MINOR 4.0)
 set (opendht_VERSION ${opendht_VERSION_MAJOR}.${opendht_VERSION_MINOR})
 set (PACKAGE_VERSION ${opendht_VERSION})
 set (VERSION "${opendht_VERSION}")
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index d2b518d6..15f028ea 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ project(
     'cython',
     license: 'MIT',
     license_files: 'LICENSE',
-    version: '4.3.0',
+    version: '4.4.0',
     meson_version: '>=1.1.0',
     default_options: ['cpp_std=c++20', 'warning_level=3'],
 )
diff --git a/vcpkg.json b/vcpkg.json
index 85bb1186..6a6e9c4d 100644
--- a/vcpkg.json
+++ b/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "opendht",
-  "version-string": "4.3.0",
+  "version-string": "4.4.0",
   "port-version": 1,
   "description": "OpenDHT: A lightweight C++17 Distributed Hash Table library.",
   "homepage": "https://opendht.net",