diff --git a/bin/mpdevil b/bin/mpdevil
index 0e8e459..aa2c65e 100755
--- a/bin/mpdevil
+++ b/bin/mpdevil
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ import dbus
 import dbus.service
 from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop
 
-VERSION='0.8.5'  # sync with setup.py
+VERSION='0.9.0-dev'  # sync with setup.py
 COVER_REGEX="^\.?(album|cover|folder|front).*\.(gif|jpeg|jpg|png)$"