diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 924d5cd4..03249942 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+8.4.2
+-----
+
+- Only initialize the syslog, S3 and Kafka clients once (PR #386 closes issues #289 and #380)
+
 8.4.1
 -----
 
diff --git a/parsedmarc/__init__.py b/parsedmarc/__init__.py
index 852b8691..38e918e4 100644
--- a/parsedmarc/__init__.py
+++ b/parsedmarc/__init__.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ from parsedmarc.utils import is_outlook_msg, convert_outlook_msg
 from parsedmarc.utils import parse_email
 from parsedmarc.utils import timestamp_to_human, human_timestamp_to_datetime
 
-__version__ = "8.4.1"
+__version__ = "8.4.2"
 
 logger.debug("parsedmarc v{0}".format(__version__))