diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 97eee64e..6e4247db 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Release History
 
+# 4.0.3 (2025-04-22)
+
+- Fix: Removed `packaging` dependency in favour of default libraries, for `urllib3` version checks (databricks/databricks-sql-python#547 by @jprakash-db)
+- 
 # 4.0.2 (2025-04-01)
 
 - Fix: Relaxed the pin for `python-dateutil` to be `^2.8.0` (databricks/databricks-sql-python#538 by @jprakash-db)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index bff8d0e1..7b95a509 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "databricks-sql-connector"
-version = "4.0.2"
+version = "4.0.3"
 description = "Databricks SQL Connector for Python"
 authors = ["Databricks <databricks-sql-connector-maintainers@databricks.com>"]
 license = "Apache-2.0"
diff --git a/src/databricks/sql/__init__.py b/src/databricks/sql/__init__.py
index 5bc72f7d..08d8c101 100644
--- a/src/databricks/sql/__init__.py
+++ b/src/databricks/sql/__init__.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def __repr__(self):
 DATE = DBAPITypeObject("date")
 ROWID = DBAPITypeObject()
 
-__version__ = "4.0.2"
+__version__ = "4.0.3"
 USER_AGENT_NAME = "PyDatabricksSqlConnector"
 
 # These two functions are pyhive legacy