diff --git a/bin/version b/bin/version
index 4fa09f38331b070a17c878e3aba73101c294f28e..74de086bb60b978c4f2e90c7084f2c4a0412001e 100755
--- a/bin/version
+++ b/bin/version
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-VERSION="v0.18.1"
+VERSION="v0.19.0-snapshot"
 
 # dynamically pull more interesting stuff from latest git commit
 HASH=$(git show-ref --head --hash=7 head)            # first 7 letters of hash should be enough; that's what GitHub uses