diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0b13658ad651..b1547e2e589d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ def run(self):
 
 setup(
     name="transformers",
-    version="4.44.1",  # expected format is one of x.y.z.dev0, or x.y.z.rc1 or x.y.z (no to dashes, yes to dots)
+    version="4.44.2",  # expected format is one of x.y.z.dev0, or x.y.z.rc1 or x.y.z (no to dashes, yes to dots)
     author="The Hugging Face team (past and future) with the help of all our contributors (https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/graphs/contributors)",
     author_email="transformers@huggingface.co",
     description="State-of-the-art Machine Learning for JAX, PyTorch and TensorFlow",
diff --git a/src/transformers/__init__.py b/src/transformers/__init__.py
index bdd3fccc2a69..85b7b32811d3 100755
--- a/src/transformers/__init__.py
+++ b/src/transformers/__init__.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 # to defer the actual importing for when the objects are requested. This way `import transformers` provides the names
 # in the namespace without actually importing anything (and especially none of the backends).
 
-__version__ = "4.44.1"
+__version__ = "4.44.2"
 
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING