diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 35a4a493..cdd2ff03 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -25,6 +25,14 @@ CLI command and its behaviour. There are no guarantees of stability for the
 
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+## 4.0.2 - 2024-07-03
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Repaired a bug that would cause a crash when running
+  `annotate --merge-copyrights` on a file that does not yet have a year in the
+  copyright statement. This bug was introduced in v4.0.1. (#1030)
+
 ## 4.0.1 - 2024-07-03
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/changelog.d/fixed/merge.md b/changelog.d/fixed/merge.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 937a13f2..00000000
--- a/changelog.d/fixed/merge.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-- Repaired a bug that would cause a crash when running
-  `annotate --merge-copyrights` on a file that does not yet have a year in the
-  copyright statement. This bug was introduced in v4.0.1. (#1030)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ab930c1d..51f587a6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "reuse"
-version = "4.0.1"
+version = "4.0.2"
 description = "reuse is a tool for compliance with the REUSE recommendations."
 authors = [
     "Free Software Foundation Europe <contact@fsfe.org>",
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ requires = ["poetry-core>=1.1.0"]
 build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"
 
 [bumpver]
-current_version = "v4.0.1"
+current_version = "v4.0.2"
 version_pattern = "vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH[PYTAGNUM]"
 commit_message = "Bump version: {old_version} → {new_version}"
 tag_message = "{new_version}"
diff --git a/src/reuse/__init__.py b/src/reuse/__init__.py
index 5bbee429..7b98506c 100644
--- a/src/reuse/__init__.py
+++ b/src/reuse/__init__.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     __version__ = version("reuse")
 except PackageNotFoundError:
     # package is not installed
-    __version__ = "4.0.1"
+    __version__ = "4.0.2"
 
 __author__ = "Carmen Bianca Bakker"
 __email__ = "carmenbianca@fsfe.org"