diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 611262e14..5fe680b56 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Revision history for Verilator
 The contributors that suggested a given feature are shown in [].  [by ...]
 indicates the contributor was also the author of the fix; Thanks!
 
-* Verilator 3.84***
+* Verilator 3.844 2013/01/09
 
 ***   Support "unsigned int" DPI import functions, msg966.  [Alex Lee]
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d2de87a4d..9504ff743 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 #AC_INIT([Verilator],[#.### YYYY-MM-DD])
 #AC_INIT([Verilator],[#.### devel])
-AC_INIT([Verilator],[3.844 devel])
+AC_INIT([Verilator],[3.844 2013-01-09])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADER(src/config_build.h)
 AC_CONFIG_FILES(Makefile src/Makefile src/Makefile_obj include/verilated.mk)