diff --git a/bento.info b/bento.info
index affd2473..3e630bc0 100644
--- a/bento.info
+++ b/bento.info
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name: scikits-image
-Version: 0.7.0
+Version: 0.8.dev0
 Summary: Image processing routines for SciPy
 Url: http://scikits-image.org
 DownloadUrl: http://github.com/scikits-image/scikits-image
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 89e4a4ac..9823352c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ MAINTAINER_EMAIL    = 'stefan@sun.ac.za'
 URL                 = 'http://scikits-image.org'
 LICENSE             = 'Modified BSD'
 DOWNLOAD_URL        = 'http://github.com/scikits-image/scikits-image'
-VERSION             = '0.7.0'
+VERSION             = '0.8dev'
 PYTHON_VERSION      = (2, 5)
 DEPENDENCIES        = {
                         'numpy': (1, 6),