diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 70ed69f..0d7a984 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 ##------------------------------------------------------------##
 
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
-AC_INIT([Valgrind],[3.8.0],[valgrind-users@lists.sourceforge.net])
+AC_INIT([Valgrind],[3.9.0.SVN],[valgrind-users@lists.sourceforge.net])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(coregrind/m_main.c)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])