diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2396a5765a8..905ded0c264 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>org.elasticsearch</groupId>
     <artifactId>elasticsearch</artifactId>
-    <version>0.19.4</version>
+    <version>0.20.0.Beta1-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
     <description>ElasticSearch - Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine</description>
     <inceptionYear>2009</inceptionYear>