diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 73d0786345..4fc3639475 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+## 0.11.9 (Unreleased)
+
 ## 0.11.9-beta1 (October 15, 2018)
 
 IMPROVEMENTS:
diff --git a/version/version.go b/version/version.go
index 90a9b52dc8..2b1db16285 100644
--- a/version/version.go
+++ b/version/version.go
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ const Version = "0.11.9"
 // A pre-release marker for the version. If this is "" (empty string)
 // then it means that it is a final release. Otherwise, this is a pre-release
 // such as "dev" (in development), "beta", "rc1", etc.
-var Prerelease = "beta1"
+var Prerelease = "dev"
 
 // SemVer is an instance of version.Version. This has the secondary
 // benefit of verifying during tests and init time that our version is a