diff --git a/aicsimageio/__init__.py b/aicsimageio/__init__.py
index d0458f970..21cac2f42 100644
--- a/aicsimageio/__init__.py
+++ b/aicsimageio/__init__.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 __email__ = "evamaxfieldbrown@gmail.com, jamie.sherman@gmail.com, bowdenm@spu.edu"
 # Do not edit this string manually, always use bumpversion
 # Details in CONTRIBUTING.md
-__version__ = "4.9.3"
+__version__ = "4.9.4"
 
 
 def get_module_version() -> str:
diff --git a/cookiecutter.yaml b/cookiecutter.yaml
index c9a9834f4..bd27138ff 100644
--- a/cookiecutter.yaml
+++ b/cookiecutter.yaml
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ default_context:
     project_slug: "aicsimageio"
     project_short_description: "Image Reading, Metadata Conversion, and Image Writing for Microscopy Images in Pure Python"
     pypi_username: "aicspypi"
-    version: "4.9.3"
+    version: "4.9.4"
     open_source_license: "BSD license"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index b4b71a243..d22b7f078 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 4.9.3
+current_version = 4.9.4
 parse = (?P<major>\d+)\.(?P<minor>\d+)\.(?P<patch>\d+)
 serialize = {major}.{minor}.{patch}
 commit = True
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 59799f71d..1f6de603b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -168,6 +168,6 @@ def run(self):
     url="https://github.com/AllenCellModeling/aicsimageio",
     # Do not edit this string manually, always use bumpversion
     # Details in CONTRIBUTING.md
-    version="4.9.3",
+    version="4.9.4",
     zip_safe=False,
 )