diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index cbc46183b62090af0c7bad96cc782e63fea31ec6_Q0hBTkdFUy50eHQ=..cad779581584976c2196b52e0e9f10809fe30bca_Q0hBTkdFUy50eHQ= 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Version 2.4.0 released 2012-03-XX
+
+* New bigint_as_string option for encoder to trade JavaScript number precision
+  issues for type issues.
+  https://github.com/simplejson/simplejson/issues/31
+
 Version 2.3.3 released 2012-02-27
 
 * Allow unknown numerical types for indent parameter
diff --git a/conf.py b/conf.py
index cbc46183b62090af0c7bad96cc782e63fea31ec6_Y29uZi5weQ==..cad779581584976c2196b52e0e9f10809fe30bca_Y29uZi5weQ== 100644
--- a/conf.py
+++ b/conf.py
@@ -42,5 +42,5 @@
 # other places throughout the built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '2.3'
+version = '2.4'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
@@ -46,5 +46,5 @@
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '2.3.3'
+release = '2.4.0'
 
 # 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 cbc46183b62090af0c7bad96cc782e63fea31ec6_c2V0dXAucHk=..cad779581584976c2196b52e0e9f10809fe30bca_c2V0dXAucHk= 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     DistutilsPlatformError
 
 IS_PYPY = hasattr(sys, 'pypy_translation_info')
-VERSION = '2.3.3'
+VERSION = '2.4.0'
 DESCRIPTION = "Simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python"
 LONG_DESCRIPTION = open('README.rst', 'r').read()
 
diff --git a/simplejson/__init__.py b/simplejson/__init__.py
index cbc46183b62090af0c7bad96cc782e63fea31ec6_c2ltcGxlanNvbi9fX2luaXRfXy5weQ==..cad779581584976c2196b52e0e9f10809fe30bca_c2ltcGxlanNvbi9fX2luaXRfXy5weQ== 100644
--- a/simplejson/__init__.py
+++ b/simplejson/__init__.py
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
     $ echo '{ 1.2:3.4}' | python -m simplejson.tool
     Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 2)
 """
-__version__ = '2.3.3'
+__version__ = '2.4.0'
 __all__ = [
     'dump', 'dumps', 'load', 'loads',
     'JSONDecoder', 'JSONDecodeError', 'JSONEncoder',