Nump version to 2.4.1

Change-Id: I53c17b15856bb69e93891030db2e3fd707e564c6
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 # Changelog
 
 
+## 2.4.1 [2026-04-03]
+
+* Fixed Unicode surrogate pair handling bugs in German gender sensitive forms
+   (Fixed #139 crash on unmatched characters)
+* Updated dependencies
+
 ## 2.4.0 [2026-02-25]
 
 * Added German gender-sensitive form tokenization:
@@ -15,7 +21,7 @@
 * Fixed thousands separators not being handled consistently (issue #135):
   - Apostrophe `'` (Swiss format: `1'000'000`)
   - Thin space U+2009 and narrow no-break space U+202F
-* Updated dependencies
+* Updated dependencies                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
 
 ## 2.3.1 [2026-01-28]
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a53cdf6..6d3081e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
     <groupId>de.ids-mannheim.korap.tokenizer</groupId>
     <artifactId>KorAP-Tokenizer</artifactId>
-    <version>2.4.0</version>
+    <version>2.4.1</version>
 
     <name>KorAP-Tokenizer</name>
     <description>DFA tokenizer with character offset output, large abbreviation tables and CMC support.</description>