diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 09294df2874..3cee310fabc 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,18 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
 
+  NEW FEATURES
+
+  IMPROVEMENTS
+
+  OPTIMIZATIONS
+
+  BUG FIXES
+
+Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
+
+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
+
   NEW FEATURES
 
     HADOOP-6791.  Refresh for proxy superuser config
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index d84bd96747b..8f502a424f9 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
  
   <property name="Name" value="Hadoop-common"/>
   <property name="name" value="hadoop-common"/>
-  <property name="version" value="0.22.0-SNAPSHOT"/>
+  <property name="version" value="0.23.0-SNAPSHOT"/>
   <property name="final.name" value="${name}-${version}"/>
   <property name="test.final.name" value="${name}-test-${version}"/>
   <property name="year" value="2009"/>
diff --git a/src/docs/src/documentation/content/xdocs/tabs.xml b/src/docs/src/documentation/content/xdocs/tabs.xml
index 95dc8dbbcad..d2cccc17978 100644
--- a/src/docs/src/documentation/content/xdocs/tabs.xml
+++ b/src/docs/src/documentation/content/xdocs/tabs.xml
@@ -32,6 +32,6 @@
 
   <tab label="Project" href="http://hadoop.apache.org/common/" />
   <tab label="Wiki" href="http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop" />
-  <tab label="Common 0.22 Documentation" dir="" />  
+  <tab label="Common 0.23 Documentation" dir="" />  
   
 </tabs>