diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 97c57e44..06960d6e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+v1.4.3 2022-10-31  The Irssi team <staff@irssi.org>
+	- Fix freeze on Alt+arrows (#1416, #1417)
+	- Fix crash on /upgrade (#1399, #1419)
+	- Fix saving of -disallow_starttls (#1401, #1420)
+	- Fix libnv detection on FreeBSD (freebsd#265397, #1407). By
+	  Guido Falsi and Kristof Provost
+	- Minor help and script fixes (#1380, #1393, #1411, #1413,
+	  #1414, #1415)
+
 v1.4.2 2022-07-17  The Irssi team <staff@irssi.org>
 	* Add irssimoduledir to irssi-1.pc in the Meson build (#1383,
           #1378)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d8969cc2..e67c5b25 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT(irssi, 1.4.2)
+AC_INIT(irssi, 1.4.3)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(build-aux)
 AC_PREREQ(2.50)
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 0758aa63..5038b752 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('irssi', 'c',
-  version : '1.4.2',
+  version : '1.4.3',
   meson_version : '>=0.49',
   default_options : ['warning_level=1'])