Bump version: 40.3.0 → 40.4.0v40.4.0

4 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 5da4acfa..189ea809 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+v40.4.0
+-------
+
+* #1481: Join the sdist ``--dist-dir`` and the ``build_meta`` sdist directory argument to point to the same target (meaning the build frontend no longer needs to clean manually the dist dir to avoid multiple sdist presence, and setuptools no longer needs to handle conflicts between the two).
+
+
 v40.3.0
 -------
 
diff --git a/changelog.d/1481.change.rst b/changelog.d/1481.change.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 463ba6d9..00000000
--- a/changelog.d/1481.change.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Join the sdist ``--dist-dir`` and the ``build_meta`` sdist directory argument to point to the same target (meaning the build frontend no longer needs to clean manually the dist dir to avoid multiple sdist presence, and setuptools no longer needs to handle conflicts between the two).
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index f013124c..7c878064 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 40.3.0
+current_version = 40.4.0
 commit = True
 tag = True
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 38057fd8..3ecf1d2e 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ def pypi_link(pkg_filename):
 
 setup_params = dict(
     name="setuptools",
-    version="40.3.0",
+    version="40.4.0",
     description=(
         "Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall "
         "Python packages"