diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index aef9819..22fa218 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+### 0.4.4
+(May 7th, 2014)
+
+- Properly declare redis dependency.
+- Fix a NameError regression that was introduced in 0.4.3.
+
+
 ### 0.4.3
 (May 6th, 2014)
 
diff --git a/rq/version.py b/rq/version.py
index aac167e..3c99708 100644
--- a/rq/version.py
+++ b/rq/version.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function,
                         unicode_literals)
-VERSION = '0.4.3'
+VERSION = '0.4.4'