diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index ba22caab..600f1ee3 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 4.0.2
+current_version = 4.1.0
 commit = True
 tag = False
 
diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index 84d9cc90..c77a5558 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '4.0.2'
+version = '4.1.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
 release = version #+ '.1'
 
diff --git a/doc/history.rst b/doc/history.rst
index a13131bc..315902cb 100644
--- a/doc/history.rst
+++ b/doc/history.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 Release history
 ===============
 
+Version 4.1
+-----------
+
+- License expressions with named exceptions, the WITH syntax, are accepted
+  (:ghpull:`809`).
+- ``flit init`` allows dotted module names, for a component of a namespace
+  package (:ghissue:`822`).
+- Fix line endings in ``.cmd`` script wrappers on Windows (:ghpull:`824`).
+
 Version 4.0.3
 -------------
 
diff --git a/flit/__init__.py b/flit/__init__.py
index 54a70b8d..a86d6359 100644
--- a/flit/__init__.py
+++ b/flit/__init__.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 from .config import ConfigError
 from .log import enable_colourful_output
 
-__version__ = '4.0.2'
+__version__ = '4.1.0'
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/flit_core/flit_core/__init__.py b/flit_core/flit_core/__init__.py
index 142ebae0..96a916f2 100644
--- a/flit_core/flit_core/__init__.py
+++ b/flit_core/flit_core/__init__.py
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@
 All the convenient development features live in the main 'flit' package.
 """
 
-__version__ = '4.0.2'
+__version__ = '4.1.0'
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b3695a41..ed04e347 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ authors = [
     {name = "Thomas Kluyver", email = "thomas@kluyver.me.uk"},
 ]
 dependencies = [
-    "flit_core >=4.0.2",
+    "flit_core >=4.1.0",
     "requests",
     "docutils",
     "tomli-w",