diff --git a/cornac/__init__.py b/cornac/__init__.py
index 0bced7a5f..2429ecc24 100644
--- a/cornac/__init__.py
+++ b/cornac/__init__.py
@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@
 # Also importable from root
 from .experiment import Experiment
 
-__version__ = '1.3.1'
\ No newline at end of file
+__version__ = '1.4.0'
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index a06ee06bb..aa656d036 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@
 author = 'Preferred.AI'
 
 # The short X.Y version
-version = '1.3'
+version = '1.4'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release = '1.3.1'
+release = '1.4.0'
 
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a84d14f30..4c57ffe39 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ def extract_gcc_binaries():
 
 setup(
     name="cornac",
-    version="1.3.1",
+    version="1.4.0",
     description="A Comparative Framework for Multimodal Recommender Systems",
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",