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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2026 13:56:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(master): release redis-client-kit 0.4.0

---
 .release-please-manifest.json   |  2 +-
 CHANGELOG.md                    | 11 +++++++++++
 redis_client_kit/__init__.py    |  2 +-
 redis_client_kit/__version__.py |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 0ee8c01..2537c1f 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "0.3.0"
+  ".": "0.4.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index dac0885..2af7d8c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [0.4.0](https://github.com/bedrock-python/redis-client-kit/compare/redis-client-kit-v0.3.0...redis-client-kit-v0.4.0) (2026-10-09)
+
+
+### ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES
+
+* a hand-written connection object now needs a username attribute (None for the default user); without it the factories raise AttributeError.
+
+### Features
+
+* log in as a Redis ACL user with connection.username ([#49](https://github.com/bedrock-python/redis-client-kit/issues/49)) ([53b09e5](https://github.com/bedrock-python/redis-client-kit/commit/53b09e5132fb8bdcfdd1beadfda5a581c22dd02b))
+
 ## [0.3.0](https://github.com/bedrock-python/redis-client-kit/compare/redis-client-kit-v0.2.0...redis-client-kit-v0.3.0) (2026-09-15)
 
 
diff --git a/redis_client_kit/__init__.py b/redis_client_kit/__init__.py
index e2fc54a..5e5fc4d 100644
--- a/redis_client_kit/__init__.py
+++ b/redis_client_kit/__init__.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 try:
     __version__ = version("redis-client-kit")
 except PackageNotFoundError:  # pragma: no cover
-    __version__ = "0.3.0"
+    __version__ = "0.4.0"
 
 # ruff: noqa: RUF022
 __all__ = [
diff --git a/redis_client_kit/__version__.py b/redis_client_kit/__version__.py
index 7e1d86a..9ce25b8 100644
--- a/redis_client_kit/__version__.py
+++ b/redis_client_kit/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.3.0"  # x-release-please-version
+__version__ = "0.4.0"  # x-release-please-version