diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index f370790ae..515b91be1 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ include(CheckIncludeFileCXX)
 ### whisper.cpp version
 set(WHISPER_VERSION_MAJOR 1)
 set(WHISPER_VERSION_MINOR 9)
-set(WHISPER_VERSION_PATCH 2)
+set(WHISPER_VERSION_PATCH 3)
 set(WHISPER_VERSION_BASE "${WHISPER_VERSION_MAJOR}.${WHISPER_VERSION_MINOR}.${WHISPER_VERSION_PATCH}")
 
 # whether this is a development/nightly build
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2b62a6379..1cd81ac3c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 [![Conan Center](https://shields.io/conan/v/whisper-cpp)](https://conan.io/center/whisper-cpp)
 [![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/whisper.cpp.svg)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/whisper.cpp/)
 
-Stable: [v1.9.2](https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/releases/tag/v1.9.2) / [Roadmap](https://github.com/orgs/ggml-org/projects/4/)
+Stable: [v1.9.3](https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/releases/tag/v1.9.3) / [Roadmap](https://github.com/orgs/ggml-org/projects/4/)
 
 High-performance inference of [OpenAI's Whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper) automatic speech recognition (ASR) model:
 
diff --git a/bindings/javascript/package.json b/bindings/javascript/package.json
index ee080716a..ce9bb54b3 100644
--- a/bindings/javascript/package.json
+++ b/bindings/javascript/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "whisper.cpp",
-  "version": "1.9.2-dev",
+  "version": "1.9.3",
   "description": "Whisper speech recognition",
   "main": "whisper.js",
   "scripts": {