diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: downlit
 Title: Syntax Highlighting and Automatic Linking
-Version: 0.4.2.9000
+Version: 0.4.3
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("RStudio", role = c("cph", "fnd"))
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# downlit (development version)
+# downlit 0.4.3
 
 * Fix for upcoming R-devel (#169).