diff --git a/ppmutils/__init__.py b/ppmutils/__init__.py
index 26750de..6dd72dd 100644
--- a/ppmutils/__init__.py
+++ b/ppmutils/__init__.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 """
 
 __title__ = 'PPM Utils'
-__version__ = '0.4.3'
+__version__ = '0.4.4'
 __author__ = 'Bryan Larson'
 __license__ = 'BSD 2-Clause'
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2011-2018 Harvard Medical School Department of Biomedical Informatics'