diff --git a/Changelog.rst b/Changelog.rst
index de5663c0..4bee791a 100644
--- a/Changelog.rst
+++ b/Changelog.rst
@@ -3,15 +3,16 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
-1.4.0 (dev)
------------
+1.4.0 (2015-02-11)
+------------------
 
  * Using insecure SSL configuration (``verify_cert=False``) raises a warning
- * ``reindex`` accepts a query parameter
+ * ``reindex`` accepts a ``query`` parameter
  * enable ``reindex`` helper to accept any kwargs for underlying ``bulk`` and
    ``scan`` calls
  * when doing an initial sniff (via ``sniff_on_start``) ignore special sniff timeout
  * option to treat ``TransportError`` as normal failure in ``bulk`` helpers
+ * fixed an issue with sniffing when only a single host was passed in
 
 1.3.0 (2014-12-31)
 ------------------
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 85f5dc4f..3efa2b21 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ copyright = u'2013, Honza Král'
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '1.4.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '1.4.0-dev'
+release = '1.4.0'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/elasticsearch/__init__.py b/elasticsearch/__init__.py
index a9b93805..72674e1f 100644
--- a/elasticsearch/__init__.py
+++ b/elasticsearch/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
-VERSION = (1, 4, 0, 'dev')
+VERSION = (1, 4, 0)
 __version__ = VERSION
 __versionstr__ = '.'.join(map(str, VERSION))
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 61ad949b..199d62d3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 import sys
 import os
 
-VERSION = (1, 4, 0, 'dev')
+VERSION = (1, 4, 0)
 __version__ = VERSION
 __versionstr__ = '.'.join(map(str, VERSION))