diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9bca00a..61fcdaa 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/)
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## [0.4.4] - 2019-03-28
+
+### Fixed
+- Fix a version of tornado compatible with our jupyter version (#35)
+
 ## [0.4.3] - 2019-02-15
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/civis_jupyter_notebooks/version.py b/civis_jupyter_notebooks/version.py
index 908c0bb..9a8e054 100644
--- a/civis_jupyter_notebooks/version.py
+++ b/civis_jupyter_notebooks/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '0.4.3'
+__version__ = '0.4.4'
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index aab816e..51c4c2a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ civis~=1.6
 requests~=2.18
 click~=6.7
 notebook~=5.1,!=5.7.*
+# for versions of jupyter before 5.7.5 we need to specify tornado<6
+# as these older versions of jupyter will break with tornado 6
+tornado<6
 six~=1.10
 civis-jupyter-extensions~=0.1
 GitPython~=2.1