diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3e15c489..356a7d7a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.43.0] - 2026-04-24
+
 ### Changed
 
 - **Native async LanceDB**: all table I/O now uses LanceDB's async API (`connect_async`, `AsyncConnection`, `AsyncTable`). Previously, repository methods were declared `async def` but called blocking sync LanceDB under the hood, stalling the event loop on every read/write. No change to the documented `async with HaikuRAG(...) as client:` usage pattern.
@@ -1433,7 +1435,8 @@ Existing documents without DoclingDocument data will work but won't have provena
 
 - Initial version tracking
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/ggozad/haiku.rag/compare/0.42.1...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/ggozad/haiku.rag/compare/0.43.0...HEAD
+[0.43.0]: https://github.com/ggozad/haiku.rag/compare/0.42.1...0.43.0
 [0.42.1]: https://github.com/ggozad/haiku.rag/compare/0.42.0...0.42.1
 [0.42.0]: https://github.com/ggozad/haiku.rag/compare/0.41.0...0.42.0
 [0.41.0]: https://github.com/ggozad/haiku.rag/compare/0.40.1...0.41.0
diff --git a/app/backend/pyproject.toml b/app/backend/pyproject.toml
index 9724da61..1f286c38 100644
--- a/app/backend/pyproject.toml
+++ b/app/backend/pyproject.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "uvicorn[standard]>=0.40.0",
     "pydantic-ai-slim[ag-ui,anthropic,openai]>=1.81.0",
     "python-dotenv>=1.2.1",
-    "haiku.rag-slim>=0.42.1",
+    "haiku.rag-slim>=0.43.0",
     "logfire[pydantic-ai]>=3.17.0",
 ]
 
diff --git a/evaluations/pyproject.toml b/evaluations/pyproject.toml
index fdaefbef..c52ed784 100644
--- a/evaluations/pyproject.toml
+++ b/evaluations/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 name = "haiku.rag-evals"
 description = "Benchmarking and evaluation scripts for haiku.rag"
-version = "0.42.1"
+version = "0.43.0"
 authors = [{ name = "Yiorgis Gozadinos", email = "ggozadinos@gmail.com" }]
 license = { text = "MIT" }
 requires-python = ">=3.12"
diff --git a/haiku_rag_slim/pyproject.toml b/haiku_rag_slim/pyproject.toml
index 87fdb632..8cf57ca1 100644
--- a/haiku_rag_slim/pyproject.toml
+++ b/haiku_rag_slim/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 name = "haiku.rag-slim"
 description = "Opinionated agentic RAG powered by LanceDB, Pydantic AI, and Docling - Minimal dependencies"
-version = "0.42.1"
+version = "0.43.0"
 authors = [{ name = "Yiorgis Gozadinos", email = "ggozadinos@gmail.com" }]
 license = { text = "MIT" }
 readme = { file = "README.md", content-type = "text/markdown" }
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f525639e..9f641d8a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 name = "haiku.rag"
 description = "Opinionated agentic RAG powered by LanceDB, Pydantic AI, and Docling"
-version = "0.42.1"
+version = "0.43.0"
 authors = [{ name = "Yiorgis Gozadinos", email = "ggozadinos@gmail.com" }]
 license = { text = "MIT" }
 readme = { file = "README.md", content-type = "text/markdown" }
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 
 dependencies = [
-    "haiku.rag-slim[docling,voyageai,mxbai,cohere,zeroentropy,tui]==0.42.1",
+    "haiku.rag-slim[docling,voyageai,mxbai,cohere,zeroentropy,tui]==0.43.0",
 ]
 
 [project.scripts]
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 66bca48f..49f54100 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -1418,7 +1418,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "haiku-rag"
-version = "0.42.1"
+version = "0.43.0"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "haiku-rag-slim", extra = ["cohere", "docling", "mxbai", "tui", "voyageai", "zeroentropy"] },
@@ -1475,7 +1475,7 @@ dev = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "haiku-rag-evals"
-version = "0.42.1"
+version = "0.43.0"
 source = { editable = "evaluations" }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "datasets" },
@@ -1500,7 +1500,7 @@ requires-dist = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "haiku-rag-slim"
-version = "0.42.1"
+version = "0.43.0"
 source = { editable = "haiku_rag_slim" }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "docling-core" },