diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Title: Interactive Grammar of Graphics
 Description: An implementation of an interactive grammar of graphics, taking the
     best parts of 'ggplot2', combining them with the reactive framework of
     'shiny' and drawing web graphics using 'vega'.
-Version: 0.4.3.9000
+Version: 0.4.4
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Winston", "Chang", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "winston@rstudio.com"),
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", role = "aut", email = "hadley@rstudio.com"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# ggvis 0.4.4
+
+* Various fixes to S3 method registration.
+
 # ggvis 0.4.3
 
 * Switched from stripped-down build of jQuery UI to a full build. (#410)