diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index a2e60ba..88499b9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,29 @@
 ChangeLog :
 ===========
 
+2021/09/07 : 2.4.4
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: h2: match absolute-path not path-absolute for :path
+    - REGTESTS: http_upgrade: fix incorrect expectation on TCP->H1->H2
+    - REGTESTS: abortonclose: after retries, 503 is expected, not close
+    - MINOR: hlua: take the global Lua lock inside a global function
+    - BUG/MINOR: stick-table: fix the sc-set-gpt* parser when using expressions
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: base64: check output boundaries within base64{dec,urldec}
+    - BUG/MINOR: base64: base64urldec() ignores padding in output size check
+    - MINOR: compiler: implement an ONLY_ONCE() macro
+    - BUG/MINOR: lua: use strlcpy2() not strncpy() to copy sample keywords
+    - BUG/MINOR: time: fix idle time computation for long sleeps
+    - MINOR: time: add report_idle() to report process-wide idle time
+    - BUG/MINOR: ebtree: remove dependency on incorrect macro for bits per long
+    - BUG/MINOR threads: Use get_(local|gm)time instead of (local|gm)time
+    - BUG/MINOR: tools: Fix loop condition in dump_text()
+    - CLEANUP: Add missing include guard to signal.h
+    - BUG/MINOR: vars: fix set-var/unset-var exclusivity in the keyword parser
+    - DOC: configuration: remove wrong tcp-request examples in tcp-response
+    - BUG/MINOR: config: reject configs using HTTP with bufsize >= 256 MB
+    - CLEANUP: htx: remove comments about "must be < 256 MB"
+    - BUG/MAJOR: htx: fix missing header name length check in htx_add_header/trailer
+    - Revert "BUG/MINOR: stream-int: Don't block reads in si_update_rx() if chn may receive"
+
 2021/08/17 : 2.4.3
     - BUILD: http_htx: fix ci compilation error with isdigit for Windows
     - MINOR: mux_h2: define config to disable h2 websocket support
diff --git a/VERDATE b/VERDATE
index 114c5dd..503234f 100644
--- a/VERDATE
+++ b/VERDATE
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 $Format:%ci$
-2021/08/17
+2021/09/07
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 35cee72..79a6144 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.4.3
+2.4.4
diff --git a/doc/configuration.txt b/doc/configuration.txt
index b2377e7..dd662a0 100644
--- a/doc/configuration.txt
+++ b/doc/configuration.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
                          ----------------------
                               version 2.4
                              willy tarreau
-                              2021/08/17
+                              2021/09/07
 
 
 This document covers the configuration language as implemented in the version