diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7fec3a28..54c560c7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 name = "pyqtorch"
 description = "An efficient, large-scale emulator designed for quantum machine learning, seamlessly integrated with a PyTorch backend. Please refer to https://pyqtorch.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ for setup and usage info, along with the full documentation."
 readme = "README.md"
-version = "1.4.3"
+version = "1.4.4"
 requires-python = ">=3.8,<3.13"
 license = { text = "Apache 2.0" }
 keywords = ["quantum"]