diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 474057f..716d228 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: pkgbuild
 Title: Find Tools Needed to Build R Packages
-Version: 1.4.2.9000
+Version: 1.4.3
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", role = "aut"),
     person("Jim", "Hester", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index e6bd9b6..40881c1 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# pkgbuild (development version)
+# pkgbuild 1.4.3
 
 * pkgbuild now does not need the crayon, rprojroot and prettyunits
   packages.