diff --git a/ANNOUNCE.md b/ANNOUNCE.md
index 0338cac6..3e9aa2a6 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE.md
+++ b/ANNOUNCE.md
@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
-# Announcing C-Blosc2 2.14.3
+# Announcing C-Blosc2 2.14.4
 A fast, compressed and persistent binary data store library for C.
 
 ## What is new?
 
-This is a hotfix release. We have fixed some additional security
-issues discovered by OSS-Fuzz, and reported as CVEs in
-CVE-2024-3203 and CVE-2024-3204. An upgrade for production
-(and specially, shared) environments is strongly recommended.
+This is a patch release where the `SOVERSION` was bumped since the API changed.
 
 For more info, please see the release notes in:
 
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index 6a1ee7f1..475925ae 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Release notes for C-Blosc2
 Changes from 2.14.3 to 2.14.4
 =============================
 
-#XXX version-specific blurb XXX#
+* Bumped SONAME due to recent API changes. See https://github.com/Blosc/c-blosc2/issues/581.
 
 
 Changes from 2.14.2 to 2.14.3
diff --git a/include/blosc2.h b/include/blosc2.h
index 2779e2c6..07c3804c 100644
--- a/include/blosc2.h
+++ b/include/blosc2.h
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ extern "C" {
 #define BLOSC2_VERSION_MINOR    14   /* for minor interface/format changes  */
 #define BLOSC2_VERSION_RELEASE  4    /* for tweaks, bug-fixes, or development */
 
-#define BLOSC2_VERSION_STRING   "2.14.4.dev"  /* string version.  Sync with above! */
-#define BLOSC2_VERSION_DATE     "$Date:: 2023-04-06 #$"    /* date version */
+#define BLOSC2_VERSION_STRING   "2.14.4"  /* string version.  Sync with above! */
+#define BLOSC2_VERSION_DATE     "$Date:: 2023-04-10 #$"    /* date version */
 
 
 /* The maximum number of dimensions for Blosc2 NDim arrays */