diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 140064d662..814c97325b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Tue Dec 22 22:15:08 2015  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* ext/io/console/io-console.gemspec: bump up to 0.4.4.
+
 Tue Dec 22 22:11:06 2015  SHIBATA Hiroshi  <hsbt@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* NEWS: Added news entry of Psych 2.0.17
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 19fab02df1..e33f968b89 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -257,6 +257,9 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.
 * Fiddle
   * Fiddle::Function#call releases the GVL.  [Feature #11607]
 
+* io-console
+  * Update to io-console 0.4.4
+
 * lib/base64.rb
   * Base64.urlsafe_encode64: added a "padding" option to suppress
     the padding character ("=").  [Feature #10740]
diff --git a/ext/io/console/io-console.gemspec b/ext/io/console/io-console.gemspec
index 52ecdd9603..6482d4cc74 100644
--- a/ext/io/console/io-console.gemspec
+++ b/ext/io/console/io-console.gemspec
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- ruby -*-
-_VERSION = "0.4.3"
+_VERSION = "0.4.4"
 date = %w$Date::                           $[1]
 
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|