diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 35f4292f2..27edd4d6a 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ project(netCDF
   LANGUAGES C CXX
   HOMEPAGE_URL "https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/"
   DESCRIPTION "NetCDF is a set of software libraries and machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data."
-  VERSION 4.9.3
+  VERSION 4.9.4
 )
 
 #####
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ project(netCDF
 # http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libtool.html#Libtool-versioning
 #####
 
-set(NC_VERSION_NOTE "-rc1")
+set(NC_VERSION_NOTE "-development")
 set(netCDF_VERSION ${PROJECT_VERSION}${NC_VERSION_NOTE})
 set(VERSION ${netCDF_VERSION})
 set(NC_VERSION ${netCDF_VERSION})
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index f96349383..3d2f0d821 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ This file contains a high-level description of this package's evolution. Release
 * Provide better documentation for the .rc file mechanism and API. See [Github #2956](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2956) for more information.
 * Convert NCZarr V2 to store all netcdf-4 specific info as attributes. This improves interoperability with other Zarr implementations by no longer using non-standard keys. The price to be paid is that lazy attribute reading cannot be supported. See [Github #2836](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2936) for more information.
 * Cleanup the option code for NETCDF_ENABLE_SET_LOG_LEVEL\[_FUNC\] See [Github #2931](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2931) for more information.
-* 
+
 ### Release Candidate 1 - July 26, 2024
 
 * Convert NCZarr V2 to store all netcdf-4 specific info as attributes. This improves interoperability with other Zarr implementations by no longer using non-standard keys. The price to be paid is that lazy attribute reading cannot be supported. See [Github #2836](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2936) for more information.
@@ -661,12 +661,10 @@ Example Work Flow from netcdf-c source directory:
 * $ `make build-netcdf-fortran`
 * $ `make install-netcdf-fortran`
 
-> These make targets are **only** valid after `make install` has been invoked.  This cannot be enforced rigidly in the makefile for reasons we will expand on in the documentation, but in short: `make install` may require sudo, but using sudo will discard environmental variables required when attempting to build netcdf-fortran in this manner.<br><br>
+> These make targets are **only** valid after `make install` has been invoked.  This cannot be enforced rigidly in the makefile for reasons we will expand on in the documentation, but in short: `make install` may require sudo, but using sudo will discard environmental variables required when attempting to build netcdf-fortran in this manner.
 
 > It is important to note that this is functionality is for *convenience only*. It will remain possible to build `netcdf-c` and `netcdf-fortran` manually.  These make targets should hopefully suffice for the majority of our users, but for corner cases it may still be required of the user to perform a manual build.  [NCF-323](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-323)
 
-----
-
 * Added a failure state if the `m4` utility is not found on non-Windows systems; previously, the build would fail when it reached the point of invoking m4.
 
 * Added an explicit check in the build systems (autotools, cmake) for the CURL-related option `CURLOPT_CHUNK_BGN_FUNCTION`.  This option was introduced in libcurl version `7.21.0`.  On installations which require libcurl and have this version, `CURLOPT_CHUNK_BGN_FUNCTION` will be available. Otherwise, it will not.
diff --git a/docs/tutorial.dox b/docs/tutorial.dox
index fe6633722..314bff3be 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial.dox
+++ b/docs/tutorial.dox
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ This page contains references to various other NetCDF background and tutorial pa
 - \subpage tutorial_ncids
 - \subpage creating
 - \subpage reading_known
-- \subpage reading_unknown
+- \subpage reading_unknown_classic
+- \subpage reading_unknown_nc4
 - \subpage accessing_subsets
 
 \subsection background_further_reading Background and Further Reading
@@ -894,7 +895,7 @@ interest.
 
 Use ncdump to learn the structure of a file (use the -h option).
 
-\page reading_unknown Reading Classic Format NetCDF Files of Unknown Structure
+\page reading_unknown_classic Reading Classic Format NetCDF Files of Unknown Structure
 
 Perhaps you would like to write your software to handle more general
 cases, so that you don't have to adjust your source every time the
@@ -946,7 +947,7 @@ num attributes.
 - nc_inq_format() Find file format: classic CDF-1, 64-bit offset CDF-2, or 64-bit data CDF-5
 - nc_inq_libvers() Find the netCDF library version.
 
-\page reading_unknown Reading NetCDF/HDF5 Format NetCDF Files of Unknown Structure
+\page reading_unknown_nc4 Reading NetCDF/HDF5 Format NetCDF Files of Unknown Structure
 
 When using netCDF/HDF5 files (i.e. NC_NETCDF4 without
 NC_CLASSIC_MODEL), reading an unknown file is more complex, because