diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ab49a440d..2d7ad1a49 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Release History
 
-# Unreleased
+# 4.4.0 (2026-07-22)
+- Raised the minimum supported Python version to 3.10, dropping the end-of-life 3.8/3.9, to update the lockfile and clear CVE-flagged dependencies in the repo (databricks/databricks-sql-python#798)
 - Fix: `REMOVE` staging operations no longer require `staging_allowed_local_path` to be set, since removing a remote file does not touch the local filesystem (databricks/databricks-sql-python#726)
 - Report `cursor.rowcount` for DML on the Thrift backend: INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE/MERGE now set `rowcount` to the server's affected-row count instead of the hardcoded `-1`; SELECT (and statements the server does not report a count for) still return `-1`. `executemany` aggregates the count across all parameter sets per PEP 249 ([#784](https://github.com/databricks/databricks-sql-python/issues/784))
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a1516d768..ae3f1a563 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "databricks-sql-connector"
-version = "4.3.0"
+version = "4.4.0"
 description = "Databricks SQL Connector for Python"
 authors = ["Databricks <databricks-sql-connector-maintainers@databricks.com>"]
 license = "Apache-2.0"
diff --git a/src/databricks/sql/__init__.py b/src/databricks/sql/__init__.py
index 17beb7f11..bba0f568e 100644
--- a/src/databricks/sql/__init__.py
+++ b/src/databricks/sql/__init__.py
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ def __repr__(self):
 DATE = DBAPITypeObject("date")
 ROWID = DBAPITypeObject()
 
-__version__ = "4.3.0"
+__version__ = "4.4.0"
 USER_AGENT_NAME = "PyDatabricksSqlConnector"
 
 # These two functions are pyhive legacy