diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2c6efa56..eb9cd952 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## 1.44.0 [unreleased]
+## 1.44.0 [2024-06-24]
 
 ### Features
 1. [#657](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-client-python/pull/657): Prefer datetime.fromisoformat over dateutil.parse in Python 3.11+ 
diff --git a/influxdb_client/version.py b/influxdb_client/version.py
index a445d0b6..e40ba040 100644
--- a/influxdb_client/version.py
+++ b/influxdb_client/version.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """Version of the Client that is used in User-Agent header."""
 
-VERSION = '1.44.0dev0'
+VERSION = '1.44.0'