diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 69255601b..8527c216b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 unreleased
 ==========
 
+bluez-alsa v4.3.1 (2024-08-30)
+==============================
+
 - fix crash when playing audio with more than 2 channels
+- fix AAC configuration selection for low sampling rates
 
 bluez-alsa v4.3.0 (2024-08-13)
 ==============================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ab613a5f5..7c63c3de8 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.60])
 AC_INIT([BlueALSA],
-	[m4_normalize(esyscmd([test -d .git && git describe --always --dirty || echo v4.3.0]))],
+	[m4_normalize(esyscmd([test -d .git && git describe --always --dirty || echo v4.3.1]))],
 	[arkadiusz.bokowy@gmail.com], [bluez-alsa], [https://github.com/arkq/bluez-alsa])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects -Wall -Werror])