diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index c5ccd0b..79d27ef 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 Release Notes; upgrade information mainly.
 Features/major bugfixes are listed in NEWS
 
+portage-2.3.43
+==================================
+* Bug Fixes:
+    - Bug 640058 failure to unmerge gentoo-sources include-prefixes
+      directory
+    - Bug 649806 eliminate redundant stat calls on profile.bashrc files
+    - Bug 650814 eliminate unnecessary access syscalls on ebuilds
+    - Bug 660982 repoman incorrectly reports IUSE.missing
+    - Bug 661276 fix make.conf PORTDIR override when path does not exist
+
+
 portage-2.3.42
 ==================================
 * Bug Fixes:
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3e4ccd5..f50971f 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@
 
 setup(
 	name = 'portage',
-	version = '2.3.42',
+	version = '2.3.43',
 	url = 'https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage',
 	author = 'Gentoo Portage Development Team',
 	author_email = 'dev-portage@gentoo.org',