diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index caffbc3..3c5353e 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
                       PIA - Protein Inference Algorithms
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Copyright Ruhr University Bochum, Medizinisches Proteom-Center, and European
-Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), 2013-2021
+Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), 2013-2022
 
 This software is released under a three-clause BSD license:
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 56991cb..e1019ef 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 	<groupId>de.mpc.pia</groupId>
 	<artifactId>pia</artifactId>
-	<version>1.4.3</version>
+	<version>1.4.4</version>
 	<name>PIA - Protein Inference Algorithms</name>
 	<url>https://github.com/mpc-bioinformatics/pia</url>
 
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 	<properties>
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 
-		<log4j2.version>2.17.0</log4j2.version>
+		<log4j2.version>2.17.1</log4j2.version>
 		<junit.version>4.13.1</junit.version>
 		<commons-collections.version>4.1</commons-collections.version>
 		<jmzidentml.version>1.2.11</jmzidentml.version>