diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 974e75af..ab003587 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,8 +1,21 @@
+2004-07-18  Theodore A. Roth  <troth@openavr.org>
+
+	* AVRDUDE 4.4.0 has been released (cvs release tag is "release_4_4_0").
+
+2004-07-18  Theodore A. Roth  <troth@openavr.org>
+
+	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove avrdude.pdf since it is no longer
+	supplied.
+	* NEWS: Fix typo.
+	* bootstrap: Delete the autom4te.cache dir before running the
+	autotools.
+	* configure.ac (AC_INIT): Set version to 4.4.0.
+
 2004-07-17  Jan-Hinnerk Reichert  <hinni@despammed.com>
 
-        * avrdude.1: Fixed obvious copy and paste error
-        (Patch #3199 contributed by Galen Seitz)
-        
+	* avrdude.1: Fixed obvious copy and paste error
+	(Patch #3199 contributed by Galen Seitz)
+
 2004-07-15  Theodore A. Roth  <troth@openavr.org>
 
 	* main.c (main): Don't indent CPP directives.
@@ -29,14 +42,14 @@
 2004-07-07  Jan-Hinnerk Reichert  <hinni@despammed.com>
 
 	* stk500.c, term.c, doc/avrdude.texi, avrdude.1:
-        added "sck"-command to the terminal mode.
-        This command allows slowing down of the SCK of
-        STK500-programmers.
+	added "sck"-command to the terminal mode.
+	This command allows slowing down of the SCK of
+	STK500-programmers.
 
 2004-07-05  Jan-Hinnerk Reichert  <hinni@despammed.com>
 
 	* *.c, *.h: Removed unnecessary includes of
-        config.h
+	config.h
 
 2004-07-04  Jan-Hinnerk Reichert  <hinni@despammed.com>
 
@@ -49,7 +62,7 @@
 
 2004-07-04  Jan-Hinnerk Reichert  <hinni@despammed.com>
 	* avrdude.conf.in: Added support for
-        ATtiny2313 (contributed by Bob Paddock)
+	ATtiny2313 (contributed by Bob Paddock)
 
 2004-06-25  Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
 
@@ -76,9 +89,9 @@
 2004-06-17  Jan-Hinnerk Reichert  <hinni@despammed.com>
 
 	* avrdude.conf.in: Added support for
-          - tiny13 (contributed by Pawel Moll)
-          - mega48 and mega88 (contributed by Galen Seitz)
-        However, the STK500-code for mega8 remains unchanged.
+	  - tiny13 (contributed by Pawel Moll)
+	  - mega48 and mega88 (contributed by Galen Seitz)
+	However, the STK500-code for mega8 remains unchanged.
 
 2004-05-19  Brian S. Dean  <bsd@bsdhome.com>
 
@@ -104,8 +117,8 @@
 2004-04-17  Jan-Hinnerk Reichert  <hinni@despammed.com>
 
 	* avr910.c: Hopefully fixed that weird "first byte not
-        programmed"-error in a good way (previous fix was not
-        working with all firmwares)
+	programmed"-error in a good way (previous fix was not
+	working with all firmwares)
 
 2004-02-10  Jan-Hinnerk Reichert  <hinni@despammed.com>
 
@@ -125,7 +138,6 @@
 	* pgm.c: Fixed wrong type for default_open introduced by
 	the cleanup yesterday.
 
-
 2004-01-29  Jan-Hinnerk Reichert  <hinni@despammed.com>
 
 	* par.c: changed order of port-read/writes in par_txrx().
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 6e99494e..36a49e68 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ EXTRA_DIST   = \
 	ChangeLog-2002 \
 	ChangeLog-2003 \
 	avrdude.1 \
-	avrdude.pdf \
 	avrdude.spec \
 	bootstrap
 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4837059d..97747366 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Approximate change log for AVRDUDE by version.
 
 Current:
 
-  * Native Win32 support: The windows doesn't need Cygwin
+  * Native Win32 support: The windows build doesn't need Cygwin
     anymore. Additionally, the delay timing on windows should be
     more accurate now.
     Contributed by Martin Thomas
diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index c702f8e7..e1f76105 100755
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ export ACLOCAL AUTOHEADER AUTOCONF AUTOMAKE
 
 set -x
 
+rm -rf autom4te.cache
+
 ${ACLOCAL}
 ${AUTOHEADER}
 ${AUTOCONF}
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 46e88619..6aadadd1 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.57)
-AC_INIT(avrdude, 4.3.0cvs, avrdude-dev@nongnu.org)
+AC_INIT(avrdude, 4.4.0, avrdude-dev@nongnu.org)
 
 AC_CANONICAL_BUILD
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST