diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 450e83c4e9..c47f129bc5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This
 project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## Unreleased
+
 ## 1.6.0
 
 This release contains a mix of new features, performance improvements, and bugfixes. Notably:
diff --git a/v1/version/version.go b/v1/version/version.go
index ab229e76fe..c6a099754e 100644
--- a/v1/version/version.go
+++ b/v1/version/version.go
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"runtime/debug"
 )
 
-var Version = "1.6.0"
+var Version = "1.7.0-dev"
 
 // GoVersion is the version of Go this was built with
 var GoVersion = runtime.Version()