diff --git a/apis/chef/pom.xml b/apis/chef/pom.xml
index fec3d8a76d..74780d210e 100644
--- a/apis/chef/pom.xml
+++ b/apis/chef/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.jclouds.chef</groupId>
     <artifactId>chef-project</artifactId>
-    <version>1.7.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <relativePath>../project/pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <groupId>org.apache.jclouds.api</groupId>