diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
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--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,6 +1,20 @@
 
 # Release history
 
+### Aider v0.44.0
+
+- Default pip install size reduced by 3-12x.
+- Added 3 package extras, which aider will offer to install when needed:
+  - `aider-chat[help]`
+  - `aider-chat[browser]`
+  - `aider-chat[playwright]`
+- Improved regex for detecting URLs in user chat messages.
+- Bugfix to globbing logic when absolute paths are included in `/add`.
+- Simplified output of `--models`.
+- The `--check-update` switch was renamed to `--just-check-updated`.
+- The `--skip-check-update` switch was renamed to `--[no-]check-update`.
+- Aider wrote 29% of the code in this release (157/547 lines).
+
 ### Aider v0.43.4
 
 - Added scipy back to main requirements.txt.
diff --git a/aider/website/HISTORY.md b/aider/website/HISTORY.md
index 4a7cca4852b..b29ce59bcc6 100644
--- a/aider/website/HISTORY.md
+++ b/aider/website/HISTORY.md
@@ -12,6 +12,20 @@ cog.out(text)
 
 # Release history
 
+### Aider v0.44.0
+
+- Default pip install size reduced by 3-12x.
+- Added 3 package extras, which aider will offer to install when needed:
+  - `aider-chat[help]`
+  - `aider-chat[browser]`
+  - `aider-chat[playwright]`
+- Improved regex for detecting URLs in user chat messages.
+- Bugfix to globbing logic when absolute paths are included in `/add`.
+- Simplified output of `--models`.
+- The `--check-update` switch was renamed to `--just-check-updated`.
+- The `--skip-check-update` switch was renamed to `--[no-]check-update`.
+- Aider wrote 29% of the code in this release (157/547 lines).
+
 ### Aider v0.43.4
 
 - Added scipy back to main requirements.txt.