diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 3fd1fb0b..662fb7f9 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
         <maven.test.skip>true</maven.test.skip>
 
         <!-- Manually entered release version -->
-        <release.version>4.0</release.version>
+        <release.version>4.1</release.version>
 
         <!-- Get how many commits have been made since the last tag (the previous release) -->
         <patch.version>${git.closest.tag.commit.count}</patch.version>