diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
index de95315dbe4edf4d7e7ab40357bd235d089580e3..5d4882edf353d358def92b89bd1bf49cbbdc1561 100644
--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 VERSION
 =======
 
-Version 4.1.2
+Version 4.3
 
-What's new in version 4.1.2?
+What's new in version 4.3?
 
 In this version we integrated a fix suggested by Wei Shen.
 There was a regression in version 3.0 and upper: the rearranged phage sequence was no more trimmed.
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ This is now fixed thanks to Wei.
 VERSION
 =======
 
-Version 4.1.1
+Version 4.2
 
-What's new in version 4.1.1?
+What's new in version 4.2?
 
 
 In this version, we added the possibility to provide gzipped files as input.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b12ad299bf834678b7f4c1f455a22f34109d6574..453731eaa47b6c16a8a8ec61c3990a295bd05d61 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ PhageTerm.py - run as command line in a shell
 # VERSION
 # =======
 
-Version 4.1.2
+Version 4.3
 Compatible with python 3.9 up to 3.13
 
 
@@ -39,13 +39,13 @@ Version 3.0.0 up to version 4.0 work with python 2.7
 
 From version 4.0 to version 4.1, PhageTerm (now PhageTermVirome) works with python 3.7
 
-version 4.1.1 works with python 3.9 up to python 3.13.
+version 4.2 and higher work with python 3.9 up to python 3.13.
 
 
 # PREREQUISITES
 # =============
 
-## For version 4.2
+## For version 4.3
 - python3.9
 - poetry (https://python-poetry.org/docs/)
 - An up to date list of dependencies can be found in the pyproject.toml file.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ec1a5a5c24afb029285ba29636eba6fd8519027d..20052ee3cbcd9717ec991649286aa5c12b9d9c36 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "phagetermvirome"
-version = "4.1.2"
+version = "4.3"
 description = "Using sequencing bias to identify phages terminii and phage genome packaging."
 authors = ["Marc Monot <marc.monot@pasteur.fr>",
            "Julian Garneau <julian.garneau@unil.ch>",