diff --git a/.zenodo.json b/.zenodo.json
index 9702cb8eb..eee171598 100644
--- a/.zenodo.json
+++ b/.zenodo.json
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   "license": "MPL-2.0",
   "title": "4CAT Capture and Analysis Toolkit",
   "upload_type": "software",
-  "version": "v1.42",
+  "version": "v1.43",
   "keywords": [
     "webmining",
     "scraping",
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 4e9e48817..c1830b55d 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-1.42
+1.43
 
 This file should not be modified. It is used by 4CAT to determine whether it
 needs to run migration scripts to e.g. update the database structure to a more