diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8bbb25864c..570bd3f0e2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@
 
 **Merged pull requests:**
 
+- Apply ASCII-based comparisons to commands in kickstart script that rely on a particular language setting [\#16806](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16806) ([tkatsoulas](https://github.com/tkatsoulas))
 - Remove help text that no longer applies. [\#16805](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16805) ([vkalintiris](https://github.com/vkalintiris))
+- Move mqtt\_websockets under aclk/ [\#16804](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16804) ([vkalintiris](https://github.com/vkalintiris))
+- Fix incorrect major version check in updater. [\#16803](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16803) ([Ferroin](https://github.com/Ferroin))
 - cgroups: containers-vms add CPU throttling % [\#16800](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16800) ([ilyam8](https://github.com/ilyam8))
 - Add additional fail reason and source during database initialization [\#16794](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16794) ([stelfrag](https://github.com/stelfrag))
 - Use original summary for alert transition [\#16793](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16793) ([stelfrag](https://github.com/stelfrag))
@@ -146,6 +149,7 @@
 - fix cpu arch/ram/disk values in buildinfo [\#16567](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16567) ([ilyam8](https://github.com/ilyam8))
 - Remove Netdata packages from APT cache when attempting to install. [\#16566](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16566) ([Ferroin](https://github.com/Ferroin))
 - Resolve issue on startup in servers with 1 core [\#16565](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16565) ([stelfrag](https://github.com/stelfrag))
+- Update naming for swagger api [\#16564](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16564) ([tkatsoulas](https://github.com/tkatsoulas))
 - Fix release metadata workflow [\#16563](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16563) ([tkatsoulas](https://github.com/tkatsoulas))
 - Make  the systemd-journal mandatory package on Centos 7  and Amazon linux 2 [\#16562](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16562) ([tkatsoulas](https://github.com/tkatsoulas))
 - Fix for AMD GPU drm different format proc file [\#16561](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16561) ([MrZammler](https://github.com/MrZammler))
@@ -407,9 +411,6 @@
 - kickstart: rename auto-update-method to auto-update-type [\#16229](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16229) ([ilyam8](https://github.com/ilyam8))
 - update go.d plugin version to v0.56.3 [\#16228](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16228) ([ilyam8](https://github.com/ilyam8))
 - Add document outlining our versioning policy and public API. [\#16227](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16227) ([Ferroin](https://github.com/Ferroin))
-- Changes to `systemd-journal` docs [\#16225](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16225) ([Ancairon](https://github.com/Ancairon))
-- Fix statistics calculation in 32bit systems [\#16222](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16222) ([stelfrag](https://github.com/stelfrag))
-- Fix meta unittest [\#16221](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/16221) ([stelfrag](https://github.com/stelfrag))
 
 ## [v1.43.2](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/tree/v1.43.2) (2023-10-30)
 
diff --git a/packaging/version b/packaging/version
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--- a/packaging/version
+++ b/packaging/version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-v1.44.0-205-nightly
+v1.44.0-210-nightly