diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c5fccde701556ec9d2fabb47c8eeff104b927557..352311d0910bcf0c7f60183b6f58dd7ffdcb0ed4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,22 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [Unreleased] ##
+
+### Added ###
+
+### Changed ###
+
+### Deprecated ###
+
+### Removed ###
+
+### Fixed ###
+
+### Security ###
+
+### Documentation ###
+
 ## [0.7.1] - 2024-03-21 ##
 
 ### Fixed ###
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 5319502671e861d26f9c655a8b5b717d4f0d41ce..88898530f7b7e049e84b230bdcbd45ff5170fabf 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [metadata]
 name = caoscrawler
-version = 0.7.1
+version = 0.7.2
 author = Alexander Schlemmer
 author_email = alexander.schlemmer@ds.mpg.de
 description = A new crawler for caosdb
diff --git a/src/doc/conf.py b/src/doc/conf.py
index 5c376e1e008e4649687c675c796a210a17f210aa..3cce99d03728d229c848ba6374d15de9fe73ec7b 100644
--- a/src/doc/conf.py
+++ b/src/doc/conf.py
@@ -33,10 +33,10 @@ copyright = '2024, IndiScale'
 author = 'Alexander Schlemmer'
 
 # The short X.Y version
-version = '0.7.1'
+version = '0.7.2'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
 # release = '0.5.2-rc2'
-release = '0.7.1'
+release = '0.7.2-dev'
 
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------