diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d450c0a509835a6b17f50bf08d923e3c57d88b23..d6a5db4cbe10370b8eb2c626c355974087a49e03 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ KleidiAI follows the [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/) specification fo
 
 ## Upcoming Release
 
+## 1.4.0
+
 - New Advanced SIMD micro-kernels:
   - New 4x8 block size variant of matrix multiplication of QAI8DXP LHS and QSI4C32P RHS with F32 output.
     - Optimizations for FEAT_DotProd.
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index b6a139dbd0fda2e0f8a0750f5c93f9f9c5fc4b9b..7fc3539462d9d33a4ec4a91bc20dcba6001a90db 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)
 
 project(KleidiAI
-    VERSION 1.3.0
+    VERSION 1.4.0
     LANGUAGES C CXX
 )
 
diff --git a/kai/kai_common.h b/kai/kai_common.h
index 26ff525ef7bde304626b32a811fbabd504fd574a..baa7c6cb31868b9bd99f68c8470f9ee8f9679802 100644
--- a/kai/kai_common.h
+++ b/kai/kai_common.h
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ extern "C" {
 ///
 /// @return Project version as a string literal.
 inline const char* kai_get_version(void) {
-    return "1.3.0";
+    return "1.4.0";
 }
 
 /// KleidiAI data types