From 7495ce7a157f536384b52d7435789f9e1f173ad1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gregory Oschwald <goschwald@maxmind.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:36:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Set release date

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f7ea3b41..58c65c93 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 CHANGELOG
 =========
 
-4.4.0
+4.4.0 (2025-08-28)
 ------------------
 
 * `WebServiceClient.Builder` now has an `httpClient()` method to allow

From e96a7849fcd615b2793ebd21be81f76bdd5e09a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gregory Oschwald <goschwald@maxmind.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:37:45 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Preparing for 4.4.0

---
 README.md | 4 ++--
 pom.xml   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 247bb549..44ac35da 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ To do this, add the dependency to your pom.xml:
     <dependency>
         <groupId>com.maxmind.geoip2</groupId>
         <artifactId>geoip2</artifactId>
-        <version>4.3.1</version>
+        <version>4.4.0</version>
     </dependency>
 ```
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ repositories {
     mavenCentral()
 }
 dependencies {
-    compile 'com.maxmind.geoip2:geoip2:4.3.1'
+    compile 'com.maxmind.geoip2:geoip2:4.4.0'
 }
 ```
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d57c2c13..91472e22 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>com.maxmind.geoip2</groupId>
     <artifactId>geoip2</artifactId>
-    <version>4.3.1</version>
+    <version>4.4.0</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
     <name>MaxMind GeoIP2 API</name>
     <description>GeoIP2 webservice client and database reader</description>