diff --git a/demo/setup.py b/demo/setup.py
index 463a15e0..a950c330 100644
--- a/demo/setup.py
+++ b/demo/setup.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ project_root = os.path.dirname(here)
 NAME = 'django-helpdesk-demodesk'
 DESCRIPTION = 'A demo Django project using django-helpdesk'
 README = open(os.path.join(here, 'README.rst')).read()
-VERSION = '0.4.0'
+VERSION = '0.5.0a1'
 #VERSION = open(os.path.join(project_root, 'VERSION')).read().strip()
 AUTHOR = 'django-helpdesk team'
 URL = 'https://github.com/django-helpdesk/django-helpdesk'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3b71a534..c16d9b8a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from distutils.util import convert_path
 from fnmatch import fnmatchcase
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
-version = '0.4.0'
+version = '0.5.0a1'
 
 # Provided as an attribute, so you can append to these instead
 # of replicating them: