diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3c0042bf4f26ceefda6929a4fe648c6d518af1f6..196a8292b20918926df4a66fb1081651f0ede66e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,23 @@ 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]
+
+This is an important security update.
+
+### Added
+
+### Changed
+
+### Deprecated
+
+### Removed
+
+### Fixed
+
+### Security
+
+
 ## [v0.7.1] - 2021-12-13
 (Timm Fitschen)
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 55c4496e5d088d1b787b3a9afeacb63427729736..1d665fcea44e070f38afb1cc17da3086916cc108 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.caosdb</groupId>
   <artifactId>caosdb-server</artifactId>
-  <version>0.7.1</version>
+  <version>0.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <name>CaosDB Server</name>
   <scm>
diff --git a/src/doc/conf.py b/src/doc/conf.py
index 214c842f9dfd594d064be47fd6fd541a5d6e9b52..079eec42b21b3532e30c21ceaf8afe5a8ea7f35b 100644
--- a/src/doc/conf.py
+++ b/src/doc/conf.py
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ copyright = '2020, IndiScale GmbH'
 author = 'Daniel Hornung'
 
 # The short X.Y version
-version = '0.7.1'
+version = '0.8.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release = '0.7.1'
+release = '0.8.0-SNAPSHOT'
 
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------