diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index fab0ffb..82a3b39 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -712,7 +712,7 @@
 - [#194] spurious write fails with ERROR_SUCCESS
 
 
-Version 3.4   2017-07-xx
+Version 3.4   2017-07-22
 ------------------------
 Improvements:
 
@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@
 Bugfixes:
 
 - [#153] list_ports: option to include symlinked devices
-- [#237] workaround for special characters in port names in port list
+- [#237] list_ports: workaround for special characters in port names
 
 Bugfixes (posix):
 
diff --git a/documentation/conf.py b/documentation/conf.py
index 64605a6..df9d14e 100644
--- a/documentation/conf.py
+++ b/documentation/conf.py
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '3.3'
+version = '3.4'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '3.3'
+release = '3.4'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/serial/__init__.py b/serial/__init__.py
index 64c43c1..c24ced8 100644
--- a/serial/__init__.py
+++ b/serial/__init__.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 from serial.serialutil import *
 #~ SerialBase, SerialException, to_bytes, iterbytes
 
-__version__ = '3.3'
+__version__ = '3.4'
 
 VERSION = __version__