diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index abf55a5..2ab03f8 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 This page was created to track changes to versions of Python-ESXi-Utilities (esxi_utils). The changelog was created in v3.22.1 and only changes starting from that version are tracked here.
 
+## 4.0.1
+
+- Bugfix for "hard_stop" argument not actually stopping the VM.
+
 ## 4.0.0
 
 - Changes the default method of retrieving VirtualMachine objects from their list
diff --git a/esxi_utils/vm/virtualmachine.py b/esxi_utils/vm/virtualmachine.py
index bba5e67..62861e3 100644
--- a/esxi_utils/vm/virtualmachine.py
+++ b/esxi_utils/vm/virtualmachine.py
@@ -1200,7 +1200,9 @@ def power_off(self, idempotent: bool = False, hard_stop: bool = False):
 		elif self.powered_off:
 			return
 		if hard_stop:
-			self._vim_vm.Stop()
+			self._vim_vm.TerminateVM()
+			# Since this is not a task, it is good to wait a bit for the VM to terminate
+			time.sleep(5)
 			return
 		self._client._wait_for_task(self._vim_vm.PowerOffVM_Task())
 
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 7f7e323..04f2f78 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [metadata]
 name = esxi-utils
-version = 4.0.0
+version = 4.0.1
 author = The MITRE Corporation
 description = A package that provides functions for interacting with an ESXi server and manipulating VMs/OVFs.
 long_description = file: README.md