diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f0debc709..6b864941f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
-  <version>3.9</version>
+  <version>3.10-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>Apache Commons Lang</name>
 
   <inceptionYear>2001</inceptionYear>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index aef34ab6d..8a00c68c2 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
   </properties>
   <body>
 
+  <release version="3.10" date="YYYY-MM-DD" description="TBD">
+  </release>
+
   <release version="3.9" date="2019-04-09" description="New features and bug fixes. Requires Java 8, supports Java 9, 10, 11">
     <action issue="LANG-1447" type="update" dev="chtompki">FieldUtils.removeFinalModifier(Field, boolean), in java 12
       throw exception because the final modifier is no longer mutable.</action>
