diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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 Package: sctransform
 Type: Package
 Title: Variance Stabilizing Transformations for Single Cell UMI Data
-Version: 0.4.0.9003
+Version: 0.4.1
 Date: 2023-10-18
 Authors@R: c(
   person(given = "Christoph", family = "Hafemeister", email = "christoph.hafemeister@nyu.edu", role = "aut", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-6365-8254")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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 # News
 All notable changes will be documented in this file.
 
-## Unreleased 
+## [0.4.1] - 2023-10-18
 
 ### Fixed 
 
@@ -11,9 +11,7 @@ All notable changes will be documented in this file.
 
 - Verbose messages when invoking `v2`: messages are only invoked if verbosity > 1. 
 
-
-
-## [0.5.0] - 2023-09-18
+## [0.4.0] - 2023-09-18
 
 ### Added
 - Add `fit_nb_offset` to support vst.flavor='v2' by default