diff --git a/version.go b/version.go
index 70dad11c..f98e8d14 100644
--- a/version.go
+++ b/version.go
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ var (
 	// the app will panic at runtime.  Of particular note is the pre-release
 	// and build metadata portions MUST only contain characters from
 	// semanticAlphabet.
-	version = "2.0.0-pre"
+	version = "2.1.0-pre"
 
 	// NOTE: The following values are set via init by parsing the above version
 	// string.