diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 9ee4cd6e7b..e9d9a2eb95 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+2011.05, Not released yet:
+
 2011.02, Released February 28th, 2011:
 
 	Fixes all over the tree.
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 8046763216..7ae3787bd7 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 #--------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # Set and export the version string
-export BR2_VERSION:=2011.02
+export BR2_VERSION:=2011.05-git
 
 # This top-level Makefile can *not* be executed in parallel
 .NOTPARALLEL: