diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index 0909633e..d3fd9d68 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [bumpversion]
 commit = True
 tag = True
-current_version = 2.43
+current_version = 2.44
 parse = (?P<major>\d+)\.(?P<minor>\d+)(\.(?P<patch>\d+)(\-(?P<release>[a-z]+))?)?
 serialize = 
 	{major}.{minor}
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 75dd12ca..2d2ee92f 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ for _variant in "${_variants[@]}"; do
 	pkgname+=(kvmd-platform-$_platform-$_board)
 done
 pkgbase=kvmd
-pkgver=2.43
+pkgver=2.44
 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 e5dc9bc3..45f3efc5 100644
--- a/kvmd/__init__.py
+++ b/kvmd/__init__.py
@@ -20,4 +20,4 @@
 # ========================================================================== #
 
 
-__version__ = "2.43"
+__version__ = "2.44"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f67b74f4..becfd1e1 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ def main() -> None:
 
     setup(
         name="kvmd",
-        version="2.43",
+        version="2.44",
         url="https://github.com/pikvm/kvmd",
         license="GPLv3",
         author="Maxim Devaev",