diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 65677254..526b8877 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,21 +2,15 @@
 User visible changes for UPX
 ==================================================================
 
-Changes in 4.0.0 (XX XXX 2022):
+Changes in 4.0.0 (28 Oct 2022):
   * Switch to semantic versioning
-  * bug fixes - see https://github.com/upx/upx/milestone/7
-
-Changes in 3.99 (27 Oct 2022):
-  * NOTE: this is a pre-release with known regressions for some ELF formats;
-    please help testing and reporting bugs, and see our GitHub Actions CI
-    page for up-to-date pre-built binaries ("Artifacts")
-    https://github.com/upx/upx/actions/workflows/ci.yml
   * SECURITY NOTES: emphasize the security context in the docs
   * Support easy building from source code with CMake
   * Support easy rebuilding the stubs from source with Podman/Docker
   * Add integrated doctest C++ testing framework
   * Add support for EFI files (PE x86; Kornel Pal)
   * bug fixes - see https://github.com/upx/upx/milestone/6
+  * bug fixes - see https://github.com/upx/upx/milestone/7
 
 Changes in 3.96 (23 Jan 2020):
   * bug fixes - see https://github.com/upx/upx/milestone/5
@@ -370,6 +364,8 @@ Changes in 0.99 (25 Feb 2000)
   * dos/com and dos/sys: fixed a bad decompressor problem
   * linux/386: the counter for the progress indicator was off by one
 
+==================================================================
+
 Changes in 0.94 (06 Dec 1999)
   * win32/pe: the stub now calls ExitProcess in case of import errors
   * under DOS and Windows, the environment variable UPX now accepts
diff --git a/doc/upx.1 b/doc/upx.1
index f5d93f56..494f1b06 100644
--- a/doc/upx.1
+++ b/doc/upx.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 4.14 (Pod::Simple 3.43)
+.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 4.14 (Pod::Simple 3.42)
 .\"
 .\" Standard preamble:
 .\" ========================================================================
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
 .\" ========================================================================
 .\"
 .IX Title "UPX 1"
-.TH UPX 1 "2022-11-30" "upx 4.0.0" " "
+.TH UPX 1 "2022-10-28" "upx 4.0.0" " "
 .\" For nroff, turn off justification.  Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
 .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
 .if n .ad l
diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index 4aac0b6f..35b3a826 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 #define UPX_VERSION_HEX         0x040000        /* 04.00.00 */
 #define UPX_VERSION_STRING      "4.0.0"
 #define UPX_VERSION_STRING4     "4.00"
-#define UPX_VERSION_DATE        "Nov 30th 2022"
-#define UPX_VERSION_DATE_ISO    "2022-11-30"
+#define UPX_VERSION_DATE        "Oct 28th 2022"
+#define UPX_VERSION_DATE_ISO    "2022-10-28"
 #define UPX_VERSION_YEAR        "2022"
 
 /* vim:set ts=4 sw=4 et: */