diff --git a/bento.info b/bento.info
index 10ee84f2..71ef558e 100644
--- a/bento.info
+++ b/bento.info
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name: scikit-image
-Version: 0.8.0
+Version: 0.9.dev0
 Summary: Image processing routines for SciPy
 Url: http://scikit-image.org
 DownloadUrl: http://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 22971ba7..d62a0d86 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ MAINTAINER_EMAIL    = 'stefan@sun.ac.za'
 URL                 = 'http://scikit-image.org'
 LICENSE             = 'Modified BSD'
 DOWNLOAD_URL        = 'http://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image'
-VERSION             = '0.8.0'
+VERSION             = '0.9dev'
 PYTHON_VERSION      = (2, 5)
 DEPENDENCIES        = {
                         'numpy': (1, 6),