diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7a70bd1..c33fdac 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@ WARNING: We'll drop the Python 2.7 support in v5
 
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+News in v4.4
+
+* The `prog=` specifier (in setup.py/setup.cfg/pyproject.toml) is now
+  better handled so it doesn't conflict with ArgumentParser(prog=..).
+  Fixes https://github.com/praiskup/argparse-manpage/issues/79
+
+
 News in v4.3
 
 * The pyproject.toml parsing feature now depends on the python3-tomli library
diff --git a/argparse_manpage/__init__.py b/argparse_manpage/__init__.py
index cf249e4..6d4ba73 100644
--- a/argparse_manpage/__init__.py
+++ b/argparse_manpage/__init__.py
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 argparse_manpage project
 """
 
-__version__ = '4.3'
+__version__ = '4.4'