diff --git a/default.properties b/default.properties
index 2ff2beaff26..5f3b387d45c 100644
--- a/default.properties
+++ b/default.properties
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # ---------------------------------------------------------
 name=lucene
 Name=Lucene
-version=1.2
+version=1.3-dev1
 year=2000-2002
 final.name=${name}-${version}
 debug=off