diff --git a/ChangeLog.rst b/ChangeLog.rst
index b08ad911..13a52626 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.rst
+++ b/ChangeLog.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+New in version 3.4.4
+--------------------
+* Idle connections will be removed from the pool after ``pool_idle_timeout``.
+
 New in version 3.4.3
 --------------------
 * Fix ``HashClient.{get,set}_many()`` with UNIX sockets.
diff --git a/pymemcache/__init__.py b/pymemcache/__init__.py
index ac2dc6ec..03ea7969 100644
--- a/pymemcache/__init__.py
+++ b/pymemcache/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = '3.4.3'
+__version__ = '3.4.4'
 
 from pymemcache.client.base import Client  # noqa
 from pymemcache.client.base import PooledClient  # noqa