diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 22eed7076..cbf2d54fc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## [0.43.1](https://github.com/rust-bio/rust-htslib/compare/v0.43.0...v0.43.1) (2023-05-16)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* implement Drop for faidx::Reader, destroying the fai handle ([#391](https://github.com/rust-bio/rust-htslib/issues/391)) ([0e6d6ac](https://github.com/rust-bio/rust-htslib/commit/0e6d6acec9a6d24ed6baf810e56f02394737a046))
+
 ## [0.43.0](https://github.com/rust-bio/rust-htslib/compare/v0.42.0...v0.43.0) (2023-05-12)
 
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 650e79a72..035aab298 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ license = "MIT"
 name = "rust-htslib"
 readme = "README.md"
 repository = "https://github.com/rust-bio/rust-htslib.git"
-version = "0.43.0"
+version = "0.43.1"
 
 [package.metadata.release]
 pre-release-commit-message = "release version {{version}}"