diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index b7d44233..d413f375 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## 1.0.0.pre3 (2015-12-18)
+## 1.0.0.pre4 (2015-12-18)
 
 * [#265](https://github.com/httprb/http/pull/265/):
   Remove deprecations ([@tarcieri]):
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@
   Use Encoding::BINARY as the default encoding for HTTP::Response::Body.
   ([@tarcieri])
 
+* [#278](https://github.com/httprb/http/pull/278)
+  Use an options hash for HTTP::Request's initializer API.
+  ([@ixti])
+
 
 ## 0.9.8 (2015-09-29)
 
diff --git a/lib/http/version.rb b/lib/http/version.rb
index 0bf90869..57f51363 100644
--- a/lib/http/version.rb
+++ b/lib/http/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module HTTP
-  VERSION = "1.0.0.pre3".freeze
+  VERSION = "1.0.0.pre4".freeze
 end