diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index c2c9c97..cdc8cc3 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: unrtf
 Type: Package
 Title: Extract Text from Rich Text Format (RTF) Documents
-Version: 1.4
+Version: 1.4.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Jeroen", "Ooms", ,"jeroen@berkeley.edu", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Free Software Foundation, Inc", role = "cph"))
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 53eec5a..697a4e8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+1.4.1
+  - Apply patch by TK to use __USE_MINGW_ACCESS
+
 1.4
   - Fix compiler warning on Windows GCC 8