diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8a86783..9ad891c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1 @@
-/mdds-1.4.2.tar.bz2
+/mdds-1.4.3.tar.bz2
diff --git a/mdds.spec b/mdds.spec
index 32dc423..71d8303 100644
--- a/mdds.spec
+++ b/mdds.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 %global apiversion 1.4
 
 Name: mdds
-Version: 1.4.2
+Version: 1.4.3
 Release: 1%{?dist}
 Summary: A collection of multi-dimensional data structures and indexing algorithms
 
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ make check %{?_smp_mflags}
 %license COPYING
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Oct 31 2018 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 1.4.3-1
+- new upstream release
+
 * Wed Sep 19 2018 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 1.4.2-1
 - new upstream release
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 02cef2b..c68f43b 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (mdds-1.4.2.tar.bz2) = 1d58d30c2c65167fda97c790739a2bf36802f72965007a141108320312316df9bf252c18ff84f867f3805eee4914fe748ae066d51b376791a723fd54ec21c3c3
+SHA512 (mdds-1.4.3.tar.bz2) = fd54a93fde89bff74a5ccf84ce5e2e002114297b165ded56a1bae92b28d70864775add140e165c7750f7dbe8ca1bfe83179cd9a835e53312c2e893c9e1f4434c