diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 78b2de9b124b001a9deee6c2068c39ea76a7429b..1ba4c3de144cceaceb33121d93620ec089e9b985 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+Unreleased
+----------
+
 [1.7.0] (2024-12-17)
 --------------------
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a395a7d20ffae8a6ceeeb2da7422ec1f1d574188..d97aed2b3b0eb2daf805a11133f2e89391cd5301 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "whisper-asr-webservice"
-version = "1.7.0"
+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"