diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index df70503..ff4515a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Metadata Quality Assessment Framework API Changelog
 
+## v0.9.4 (2024-04-04)
+
+The release contains dependency updates.
+
+The artefacts of the release are available in Maven Central as well: https://central.sonatype.dev/artifact/de.gwdg.metadataqa/metadata-qa-api/0.9.4
+
 ## v0.9.3 (2023-07-14)
 
 Important API change:
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 36cc49c..848ac24 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ First, add the library into your project's `pom.xml` file:
   <dependency>
     <groupId>de.gwdg.metadata</groupId>
     <artifactId>metadata-qa-api</artifactId>
-    <version>0.9.2</version>
+    <version>0.9.4</version>
   </dependency>
 </dependencies>
 ```
diff --git a/mqa b/mqa
index 7c1e142..02d3741 100755
--- a/mqa
+++ b/mqa
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Command line interface for the Metadata Quality Assessment Framework -
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-export VERSION=0.9.2
+export VERSION=0.9.4
 java -jar $(dirname $(readlink -f $0))/metadata-qa-api-${VERSION}-shaded.jar $@
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9f50864..f25014d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   <groupId>de.gwdg.metadataqa</groupId>
   <artifactId>metadata-qa-api</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
-  <version>0.9.3</version>
+  <version>0.9.4</version>
   <name>Metadata Quality Assurance Framework API</name>
   <description>
     A metadata quality assurance framework. It checks some metrics of 
@@ -22,10 +22,10 @@
       <organization>
         Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG)
       </organization>
-      <organizationUrl>http://gwdg.de/</organizationUrl>
+      <organizationUrl>https://gwdg.de/</organizationUrl>
     </developer>
   </developers>
-  <url>http://pkiraly.github.io</url>
+  <url>https://pkiraly.github.io</url>
 
   <licenses>
     <license>
diff --git a/src/test/java/de/gwdg/metadataqa/api/cli/VersionTest.java b/src/test/java/de/gwdg/metadataqa/api/cli/VersionTest.java
index ebf0b01..4ee988c 100644
--- a/src/test/java/de/gwdg/metadataqa/api/cli/VersionTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/de/gwdg/metadataqa/api/cli/VersionTest.java
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@
 
 public class VersionTest {
 
-  private final String EXPECTED_VERSION = "0.9.3";
-  ;
+  private final String EXPECTED_VERSION = "0.9.4";
 
   @Test
   public void getVersion() {