diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 435a4720e..3847f0eda 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+ver 0.15.5 (2009/??/??)
+
+
 ver 0.15.4 (2009/10/03)
 * decoders:
   - vorbis: revert "faster tag scanning with ov_test_callback()"
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 5f07ddd7c..d476a74a9 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 AC_PREREQ(2.60)
-AC_INIT(mpd, 0.15.4, musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net)
+AC_INIT(mpd, 0.15.5~git, musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/main.c])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign 1.9 dist-bzip2])
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)