diff --git a/Verovio.podspec b/Verovio.podspec
index 87cf38a4978..6d3ee2ebb58 100644
--- a/Verovio.podspec
+++ b/Verovio.podspec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Pod::Spec.new do |s|
   s.name           = 'Verovio'
-  s.version        = '3.16.0'
+  s.version        = '4.00.0'
   s.license        = { :type => 'LGPL' }
   s.homepage       = 'https://www.verovio.org/index.xhtml'
   s.authors        = { 'Contributors List' => 'https://github.com/rism-digital/verovio/graphs/contributors' }
diff --git a/bindings/java/pom.xml b/bindings/java/pom.xml
index c1468950434..5de5086c7ff 100644
--- a/bindings/java/pom.xml
+++ b/bindings/java/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
   <groupId>org.rism.verovio</groupId>
   <artifactId>VerovioToolkit</artifactId>
-  <version>3.16.0</version>
+  <version>4.0.0</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <name>VerovioToolkit</name>
diff --git a/codemeta.json b/codemeta.json
index 08e790da100..34b1e48a4c8 100644
--- a/codemeta.json
+++ b/codemeta.json
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
   "identifier": "Verovio",
   "name": "Verovio",
   "description": "Verovio is a fast, portable and lightweight open-source library for engraving Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) music scores into SVG.",
-  "softwareVersion": "3.16.0",
-  "datePublished": "2023-07-03",
+  "softwareVersion": "4.0.0",
+  "datePublished": "2023-09-05",
   "license": "https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0",
   "programmingLanguage": [{
     "@type": "ComputerLanguage",
diff --git a/emscripten/npm/package.json b/emscripten/npm/package.json
index 832d8168ec6..3f23612de10 100644
--- a/emscripten/npm/package.json
+++ b/emscripten/npm/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "verovio",
-  "version": "3.16.0",
+  "version": "4.0.0",
   "description": "This is the stable version of the verovio package",
   "main": "dist/verovio-toolkit-wasm.js",
   "exports": {
diff --git a/include/vrv/vrvdef.h b/include/vrv/vrvdef.h
index 21e6c937cf3..8a2cc70458e 100644
--- a/include/vrv/vrvdef.h
+++ b/include/vrv/vrvdef.h
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ namespace vrv {
 // Version
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-#define VERSION_MAJOR 3
-#define VERSION_MINOR 17
+#define VERSION_MAJOR 4
+#define VERSION_MINOR 0
 #define VERSION_REVISION 0
 // Adds "-dev" in the version number - should be set to false for releases
 #define VERSION_DEV false