diff --git a/distarray/__version__.py b/distarray/__version__.py
index 651582af..25e2d375 100644
--- a/distarray/__version__.py
+++ b/distarray/__version__.py
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@
 Version information for the DistArray package.
 """
 
-__short_version__ = "0.5"
-__version__ = "0.5.0"
+__short_version__ = "0.6"
+__version__ = "0.6.0-dev"