diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4dd261c6..f79798ed 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ Time-handling functionality from netcdf4-python
 [![Commits Status](https://img.shields.io/github/commits-since/UniData/cftime/latest.svg)](https://github.com/UniData/cftime/commits/master)
 
 ## News
+10/21/2019:  version 1.0.4 released.
+
 12/05/2018:  version 1.0.3.4 released (just to fix a problem with the source 
 tarball on pypi).
 
diff --git a/cftime/_cftime.pyx b/cftime/_cftime.pyx
index 86e2761f..046af25a 100644
--- a/cftime/_cftime.pyx
+++ b/cftime/_cftime.pyx
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ cdef int[13] _spm_366day = [0, 31, 60, 91, 121, 152, 182, 213, 244, 274, 305, 33
 _rop_lookup = {Py_LT: '__gt__', Py_LE: '__ge__', Py_EQ: '__eq__',
                Py_GT: '__lt__', Py_GE: '__le__', Py_NE: '__ne__'}
 
-__version__ = '1.0.3.4'
+__version__ = '1.0.4'
 
 # Adapted from http://delete.me.uk/2005/03/iso8601.html
 # Note: This regex ensures that all ISO8601 timezone formats are accepted - but, due to legacy support for other timestrings, not all incorrect formats can be rejected.