diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 06f4e79..2c7f8c7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "slide2vec"
-version = "4.3.0"
+version = "4.4.0"
 description = "Embedding of whole slide images with Foundation Models"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ no_implicit_reexport = true
 max-line-length = 160
 
 [tool.bumpver]
-current_version = "4.3.0"
+current_version = "4.4.0"
 version_pattern = "MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH"
 commit = false       # We do version bumping in CI, not as a commit
 tag = false          # Git tag already exists — we don't auto-tag
diff --git a/slide2vec/__init__.py b/slide2vec/__init__.py
index c44521c..ffba68e 100644
--- a/slide2vec/__init__.py
+++ b/slide2vec/__init__.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 from slide2vec.artifacts import HierarchicalEmbeddingArtifact, SlideEmbeddingArtifact, TileEmbeddingArtifact
 
 
-__version__ = "4.3.0"
+__version__ = "4.4.0"
 
 __all__ = [
     "Model",