diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index c28849b27..9995ca6c6 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -7,6 +7,33 @@ For a list of open issues and known problems, see:
 
 This is the latest release - if uncertain, use this release.
 
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+### 1.43.0 Release                                                    2024-01-10
+
+  - add bragg prediction example
+  - add initial agent scheduler documentation
+  - add JSRUN_ERF setup for Summit's config
+  - add mechanism to determine batch/non-batch RP starting
+  - collect task PIDs through launch- and exec-scripts
+  - ensure mpi4py for raptor example
+  - fix ERF creation for JSRUN LM (and updated tests accordingly)
+  - fix Popen test
+  - fix `Task._update` method (`description` attribute)
+  - fix `_get_exec` in Popen (based on provided comments)
+  - fix parsing PIDs procedure (based on provided comments)
+  - fix profiling in Popen (based on provided comments)
+  - fix resource manager handling in `get_resource_config`
+  - fix tasks handling in `prof_utils`
+  - fix test for launch-/exec-scripts
+  - follow-up on comments
+  - forward after scheduling
+  - keep `pids` dict empty if there is no ranks provided
+  - moved collecting EXEC_PID into exec-script
+  - preserve process id for tasks with `executable` mode
+  - switch raptor to use the agent ve
+  - update `metadata` within task description
+
+
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 ### 1.42.0 Release                                                    2023-12-04
   
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index b978278f0..372cf402c 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.43.0
+1.44.0