diff --git a/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py b/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
index ab292ed06..41d205877 100644
--- a/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ from fontTools.misc.loggingTools import configLogger
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-version = __version__ = "4.0.0.dev0"
+version = __version__ = "4.0.0"
 
 __all__ = ["version", "log", "configLogger"]
diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 5e2edf2fa..842b78330 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+4.0.0 (released 2019-08-22)
+---------------------------
+
 - NOTE: The v4.x version series only supports Python 3.6 or greater. You can keep
   using fonttools 3.x if you need support for Python 2.
 - [py23] Removed all the python2-only code since it is no longer reachable, thus
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index ef43f051b..6f89885e2 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 4.0.0.dev0
+current_version = 4.0.0
 commit = True
 tag = False
 tag_name = {new_version}
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d848f4e52..ad71f9ece 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ def find_data_files(manpath="share/man"):
 
 setup(
 	name="fonttools",
-	version="4.0.0.dev0",
+	version="4.0.0",
 	description="Tools to manipulate font files",
 	author="Just van Rossum",
 	author_email="just@letterror.com",