diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index 79467ae3..2a10b006 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [bumpversion]
 commit = True
 tag = True
-current_version = 1.43
+current_version = 1.44
 parse = (?P<major>\d+)\.(?P<minor>\d+)(\.(?P<patch>\d+)(\-(?P<release>[a-z]+))?)?
 serialize = 
 	{major}.{minor}
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 300b92aa..710ac08f 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ for _variant in "${_variants[@]}"; do
 	pkgname+=(kvmd-platform-$_platform-$_board)
 done
 pkgbase=kvmd
-pkgver=1.43
+pkgver=1.44
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="The main Pi-KVM daemon"
 url="https://github.com/pikvm/kvmd"
diff --git a/kvmd/__init__.py b/kvmd/__init__.py
index 00c84a1d..228e6954 100644
--- a/kvmd/__init__.py
+++ b/kvmd/__init__.py
@@ -20,4 +20,4 @@
 # ========================================================================== #
 
 
-__version__ = "1.43"
+__version__ = "1.44"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c3bc7521..37040b59 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ def main() -> None:
 
     setup(
         name="kvmd",
-        version="1.43",
+        version="1.44",
         url="https://github.com/pikvm/kvmd",
         license="GPLv3",
         author="Maxim Devaev",