diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 883bda5..5aa6689 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-## 1.0.next in progress
+## 1.0.444 on 2020-05-29
 
 * Fix #259 so column names are always unqualified in inserts. (@jrdoane)
 * Fix #257 by adding support for `cross-join` / `merge-cross-join` / `:cross-join`. (@dcj)
 * Switch dev/test pipeline to use CLI/`deps.edn` instead of Leiningen. Also add CI vi both CircleCI and GitHub Actions.
+* Switch to MAJOR.MINOR.COMMITS versioning.
 * Remove macrovich dependency as this is no longer needed with modern ClojureScript.
 * Add mention of `next.jdbc` everywhere `clojure.java.jdbc` was mentioned.
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 80530d1..e3757d8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ SQL as Clojure data structures. Build queries programmatically -- even at runtim
 
 The latest versions on Clojars and on cljdoc:
 
-[![Clojars Project](https://clojars.org/honeysql/latest-version.svg)](https://clojars.org/honeysql) [![cljdoc badge](https://cljdoc.org/badge/honeysql/honeysql?1.0.next)](https://cljdoc.org/d/honeysql/honeysql/CURRENT)
+[![Clojars Project](https://clojars.org/honeysql/latest-version.svg)](https://clojars.org/honeysql) [![cljdoc badge](https://cljdoc.org/badge/honeysql/honeysql?1.0.444)](https://cljdoc.org/d/honeysql/honeysql/CURRENT)
+
+This project follows the version scheme MAJOR.MINOR.COMMITS where MAJOR and MINOR provide some relative indication of the size of the change, but do not follow semantic versioning. In general, all changes endeavor to be non-breaking (by moving to new names rather than by breaking existing names). COMMITS is an ever-increasing counter of commits since the beginning of this repository.
 
 ## Note on code samples
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5cb7adc..fda7cfd 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>honeysql</groupId>
   <artifactId>honeysql</artifactId>
-  <version>1.0.next</version>
+  <version>1.0.444</version>
   <name>honeysql</name>
   <description>SQL as Clojure data structures.</description>
   <url>https://github.com/seancorfield/honeysql</url>
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     <url>https://github.com/seancorfield/honeysql</url>
     <connection>scm:git:git://github.com/seancorfield/honeysql.git</connection>
     <developerConnection>scm:git:ssh://git@github.com/seancorfield/honeysql.git</developerConnection>
-    <tag>v1.0.next</tag>
+    <tag>v1.0.444</tag>
   </scm>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>