diff --git a/numpydoc/_version.py b/numpydoc/_version.py
index 0196c1d0..b3f5ce68 100644
--- a/numpydoc/_version.py
+++ b/numpydoc/_version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "1.3.2.dev0"
+__version__ = "1.4.0rc1"