diff --git a/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py b/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
index 52994b067..686dbee5c 100644
--- a/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ from fontTools.misc.loggingTools import configLogger
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-version = __version__ = "3.42.1.dev0"
+version = __version__ = "3.43.0"
 
 __all__ = ["version", "log", "configLogger"]
diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 7d6a66cfd..5880eadf3 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+3.43.0 (released 2019-06-18)
+----------------------------
+
 - [woff2] Added support for compressing/decompressing WOFF2 fonts with non-transformed
   ``glyf`` and ``loca`` tables, as well as with transformed ``hmtx`` table.
   Removed ``Snippets/woff2_compress.py`` and ``Snippets/woff2_decompress.py`` scripts,
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 21d2f022a..dc94d1bea 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 3.42.1.dev0
+current_version = 3.43.0
 commit = True
 tag = False
 tag_name = {new_version}
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a2f7f641c..2c6bde5af 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ def find_data_files(manpath="share/man"):
 
 setup(
 	name="fonttools",
-	version="3.42.1.dev0",
+	version="3.43.0",
 	description="Tools to manipulate font files",
 	author="Just van Rossum",
 	author_email="just@letterror.com",