diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c038762..ac26dc2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# v0.4.3
+
+- remove Rf_applyClosure to support R devel
+- deprecate the use of distutils
+
 # v0.4.2
 - try again with WOW6432Node entry
 - compare to sys.version_info
diff --git a/rchitect/__init__.py b/rchitect/__init__.py
index bc8f123..7f8ca62 100644
--- a/rchitect/__init__.py
+++ b/rchitect/__init__.py
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@
     "robject"
 ]
 
-__version__ = '0.4.2'
+__version__ = '0.4.3'