diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 549d2186d..6e42857a9 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 ## __NEXT__
 
+
+## 24.3.0 (18 March 2024)
+
 ### Features
 
 * filter: Added a new option `--max-length` to filter out sequences that are longer than a certain amount of base pairs. [#1429][] (@victorlin)
diff --git a/augur/__version__.py b/augur/__version__.py
index 4028b0d57..200386826 100644
--- a/augur/__version__.py
+++ b/augur/__version__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = '24.2.3'
+__version__ = '24.3.0'
 
 
 def is_augur_version_compatible(version):