diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index bf407d4c..8d02b83b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+ncmpcpp-0.7.5 (????-??-??)
+
 ncmpcpp 0.7.4 (2016-04-17)
 * Fetching lyrics from lyricwiki.org was fixed.
 * Configure script now continues without errors if ICU library was not found.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 1f638af2..fe91c97c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_INIT(configure.ac)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h)
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(ncmpcpp, 0.7.4)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(ncmpcpp, 0.7.5_dev)
 
 m4_include([m4/ax_lib_readline.m4])