diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 6ba97c10c..f84db14e6 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
-  <version>3.12.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>3.13.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>Apache Commons Lang</name>
 
   <inceptionYear>2001</inceptionYear>
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@
     <commons.packageId>lang3</commons.packageId>
     <commons.module.name>org.apache.commons.lang3</commons.module.name>
     <!-- Current 3.x release series -->
-    <commons.release.version>3.12.0</commons.release.version>
+    <commons.release.version>3.13.0</commons.release.version>
     <commons.release.desc>(Java 8+)</commons.release.desc>
     <!-- Previous 2.x release series -->
     <commons.release.2.version>2.6</commons.release.2.version>
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@
     <commons.japicmp.version>0.15.2</commons.japicmp.version>
 
     <!-- Commons Release Plugin -->
-    <commons.bc.version>3.11</commons.bc.version>
+    <commons.bc.version>3.12.0</commons.bc.version>
     <commons.rc.version>RC1</commons.rc.version>
     <commons.release.isDistModule>true</commons.release.isDistModule>
     <commons.distSvnStagingUrl>scm:svn:https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/commons/lang</commons.distSvnStagingUrl>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 018e11907..12bc7a005 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
   </properties>
   <body>
 
-  <release version="3.12.1" date="2021-MM-DD" description="New features and bug fixes (Java 8).">
+  <release version="3.13.0" date="2021-MM-DD" description="New features and bug fixes (Java 8).">
     <!-- FIX -->
     <action issue="LANG-1645" type="fix" dev="aherbert" due-to="Alex Herbert">NumberUtils.createNumber to recognise hex integers prefixed with +.</action>
     <action issue="LANG-1646" type="fix" dev="aherbert" due-to="Alex Herbert">NumberUtils.createNumber to return requested floating point type for zero.</action>
