diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 80d545f2..e19232b4 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ python_variables: &python_variables
   CIRCLE_ARTIFACTS: /tmp/circleci-artifacts
   CIRCLE_TEST_REPORTS: /tmp/circleci-test-results
   CODECOV_TOKEN: b0d35139-0a75-427a-907b-2c78a762f8f0
-  VERSION: 2.14.2
+  VERSION: 2.14.3
   PANDOC_RELEASES_URL: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases
 python_formatting: &python_formatting
     parallelism: 1
diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 4745621d..ff00f124 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 ## Changelog
 
+### 2.14.3 (2023-4-19)
+* backwards compatability for pandas `string` dtype and tests
+
 ### 2.14.2 (2023-4-18)
 * removed extraneous dependency `soupsieve`
 
diff --git a/docker/dtale.env b/docker/dtale.env
index 0d9208a4..c11e5861 100644
--- a/docker/dtale.env
+++ b/docker/dtale.env
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-VERSION=2.14.2
+VERSION=2.14.3
 TZ=America/New_York
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index e0e48fd7..c21dabbd 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -64,9 +64,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = "2.14.2"
+version = "2.14.3"
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = "2.14.2"
+release = "2.14.3"
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/frontend/package.json b/frontend/package.json
index a8fe5317..551c4653 100644
--- a/frontend/package.json
+++ b/frontend/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "dtale",
-  "version": "2.14.2",
+  "version": "2.14.3",
   "description": "Visualizer for Pandas Data Structures",
   "main": "main.js",
   "directories": {
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8197f809..2bb5fa95 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ def run_tests(self):
 
 setup(
     name="dtale",
-    version="2.14.2",
+    version="2.14.3",
     author="MAN Alpha Technology",
     author_email="ManAlphaTech@man.com",
     description="Web Client for Visualizing Pandas Objects",