diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 447f387aebe2519eb4296a0b1a41407ffd900e52..99c288b6e987a337b05f333dc15ec374e00b5d55 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+Unreleased
+----------
+
 [1.7.1] (2024-12-18)
 --------------------
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 27e5364b0550fcfa7fecc7520fff44a622dec781..d97aed2b3b0eb2daf805a11133f2e89391cd5301 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "whisper-asr-webservice"
-version = "1.7.1"
+version = "1.8.0-dev"
 description = "Whisper ASR Webservice is a general-purpose speech recognition webservice."
 homepage = "https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/"
 license = "https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/blob/main/LICENCE"