diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 21cafed63..4ad03ab36 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 0.6.0 (unreleased)
+
+
+
 ## 0.5.3 (August 23, 2010)
 
   - Add erubis as a dependency since its rendering of `erb` is sane.
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 47e76fcc9..7ea5154da 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ GIT
 PATH
   remote: .
   specs:
-    vagrant (0.5.3)
+    vagrant (0.6.0.dev)
       archive-tar-minitar (= 0.5.2)
       erubis (>= 2.6.6)
       json (>= 1.4.3)
diff --git a/lib/vagrant/version.rb b/lib/vagrant/version.rb
index cb5f821a8..2a87d786b 100644
--- a/lib/vagrant/version.rb
+++ b/lib/vagrant/version.rb
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@ module Vagrant
   # This will always be up to date with the current version of Vagrant,
   # since it is used to generate the gemspec and is also the source of
   # the version for `vagrant -v`
-  VERSION = "0.5.3"
+  VERSION = "0.6.0.dev"
 end