diff --git a/man/meson.1 b/man/meson.1
index 929bc6e..7ad6ecd 100644
--- a/man/meson.1
+++ b/man/meson.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESON "1" "December 2017" "meson 0.44.0" "User Commands"
+.TH MESON "1" "December 2017" "meson 0.44.1" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 meson - a high productivity build system
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/man/mesonconf.1 b/man/mesonconf.1
index 3a83473..d7efd48 100644
--- a/man/mesonconf.1
+++ b/man/mesonconf.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESONCONF "1" "December 2017" "mesonconf 0.44.0" "User Commands"
+.TH MESONCONF "1" "December 2017" "mesonconf 0.44.1" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 mesonconf - a tool to configure Meson builds
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/man/mesonintrospect.1 b/man/mesonintrospect.1
index 27f39c0..419cd76 100644
--- a/man/mesonintrospect.1
+++ b/man/mesonintrospect.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESONINTROSPECT "1" "December 2017" "mesonintrospect 0.44.0" "User Commands"
+.TH MESONINTROSPECT "1" "December 2017" "mesonintrospect 0.44.1" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 mesonintrospect - a tool to extract information about a Meson build
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/man/mesontest.1 b/man/mesontest.1
index d2b2743..6b14c0d 100644
--- a/man/mesontest.1
+++ b/man/mesontest.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESON "1" "December 2017" "meson 0.44.0" "User Commands"
+.TH MESON "1" "December 2017" "meson 0.44.1" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 mesontest - test tool for the Meson build system
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/man/wraptool.1 b/man/wraptool.1
index 113b33c..61116b6 100644
--- a/man/wraptool.1
+++ b/man/wraptool.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH WRAPTOOL "1" "December 2017" "meson 0.44.0" "User Commands"
+.TH WRAPTOOL "1" "December 2017" "meson 0.44.1" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 wraptool - source dependency downloader
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/mesonbuild/coredata.py b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
index 45d8125..4abeb37 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/coredata.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 from .mesonlib import default_libdir, default_libexecdir, default_prefix
 import ast
 
-version = '0.44.0'
+version = '0.44.1'
 backendlist = ['ninja', 'vs', 'vs2010', 'vs2015', 'vs2017', 'xcode']
 
 class UserOption: