diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c1c7d92f9..29cf97dc6 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 Sandia OpenSHMEM NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
 
+v1.4.3
+------
+- Added NBI atomics support to performance suite benchmarks.
+- Fixed shmem_ctx_t type compatibility with C++ and older C compilers.
+
 v1.4.3rc1
 ---------
 - Added proposed OpenSHMEM put-with-signal routines to shmemx interaces.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 1978b5f70..648201808 100755
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 dnl Init Autoconf/Automake/Libtool
 
-AC_INIT([Sandia OpenSHMEM], [1.4.3rc1], [https://github.com/Sandia-OpenSHMEM/SOS/issues], [sandia-openshmem], [https://github.com/Sandia-OpenSHMEM/SOS])
+AC_INIT([Sandia OpenSHMEM], [1.4.3], [https://github.com/Sandia-OpenSHMEM/SOS/issues], [sandia-openshmem], [https://github.com/Sandia-OpenSHMEM/SOS])
 AC_PREREQ([2.60])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([config])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([config])