diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index f813d90..f4c97f4 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+2.34 2024-11-25
 - minimum Perl 5.10.1
 - add PGPLOT::set_debugging
 - move PDL::Graphics::State to this distro
diff --git a/lib/PGPLOT.pm b/lib/PGPLOT.pm
index 620beab..01169c6 100644
--- a/lib/PGPLOT.pm
+++ b/lib/PGPLOT.pm
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use warnings;
 use Exporter;
 use DynaLoader;
 
-our $VERSION="2.33";
+our $VERSION="2.34";
 
 our @ISA = qw(Exporter DynaLoader);
 our @EXPORT = qw( pgarro pgask pgaxis pgband pgbbuf pgbeg pgbegin pgbin pgbox