diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 22352a913f..b07f9ec237 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-## 1.12.0-alpha20250213 (February 13, 2025)
+## 1.12.0 (Unreleased)
+
 
 EXPERIMENTS:
 
diff --git a/version/VERSION b/version/VERSION
index 7e0ee8c4b3..381cf02417 100644
--- a/version/VERSION
+++ b/version/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.12.0-alpha20250213
+1.12.0-dev