diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst
index 1f5f8f38..fd0e892f 100644
--- a/docs/news.rst
+++ b/docs/news.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Release Notes
 =============
 
-**UNRELEASED**
+**0.43.0 (2024-03-11)**
 
 - Dropped support for Python 3.7
 - Updated vendored ``packaging`` to 24.0
diff --git a/src/wheel/__init__.py b/src/wheel/__init__.py
index 6cfc4772..a773bbbc 100644
--- a/src/wheel/__init__.py
+++ b/src/wheel/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-__version__ = "0.42.0"
+__version__ = "0.43.0"