diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 07128c469925dfc8258c4d3e2aa99d970b2a24b6_Q0hBTkdFUy50eHQ=..228952258d81c04bdc7115f711346707a4b2e9d6_Q0hBTkdFUy50eHQ= 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Version 3.4.0 released 2014-04-02
+
+* Native setuptools support re-introduced
+  https://github.com/simplejson/simplejson/pull/92
+
 Version 3.3.3 released 2014-02-14
 
 * Improve test suite's Python 3.4 compatibility
diff --git a/conf.py b/conf.py
index 07128c469925dfc8258c4d3e2aa99d970b2a24b6_Y29uZi5weQ==..228952258d81c04bdc7115f711346707a4b2e9d6_Y29uZi5weQ== 100644
--- a/conf.py
+++ b/conf.py
@@ -42,5 +42,5 @@
 # other places throughout the built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '3.3'
+version = '3.4'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
@@ -46,5 +46,5 @@
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '3.3.3'
+release = '3.4.0'
 
 # There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
 # non-false value, then it is used:
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 07128c469925dfc8258c4d3e2aa99d970b2a24b6_c2V0dXAucHk=..228952258d81c04bdc7115f711346707a4b2e9d6_c2V0dXAucHk= 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 from __future__ import with_statement
 
-#
-# To use setuptools commands such as bdist_egg, execute like this:
-#
-#   python -c 'import setuptools; execfile("setup.py")' bdist_egg
-#
 import sys
 try:
     from setuptools import setup, Extension, Command
@@ -16,7 +11,7 @@
     DistutilsPlatformError
 
 IS_PYPY = hasattr(sys, 'pypy_translation_info')
-VERSION = '3.3.3'
+VERSION = '3.4.0'
 DESCRIPTION = "Simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python"
 
 with open('README.rst', 'r') as f:
diff --git a/simplejson/__init__.py b/simplejson/__init__.py
index 07128c469925dfc8258c4d3e2aa99d970b2a24b6_c2ltcGxlanNvbi9fX2luaXRfXy5weQ==..228952258d81c04bdc7115f711346707a4b2e9d6_c2ltcGxlanNvbi9fX2luaXRfXy5weQ== 100644
--- a/simplejson/__init__.py
+++ b/simplejson/__init__.py
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
     Expecting property name: line 1 column 3 (char 2)
 """
 from __future__ import absolute_import
-__version__ = '3.3.3'
+__version__ = '3.4.0'
 __all__ = [
     'dump', 'dumps', 'load', 'loads',
     'JSONDecoder', 'JSONDecodeError', 'JSONEncoder',