diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3e46e5bc0..f3a37a2e2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,8 +5,11 @@ Copyright (C) 2000-2015  Stephane Fillod, and others
 
 Please send Hamlib bug reports to hamlib-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
 
+Version 3.1
+	2016-??-??
+
 Version 3.0
-	2015-09-01
+	2015-09-20
 	* Kill RPC backends and rpc.rigd/rpc.rotd
 	* Remove -e|--end-marker option from rigctld and rotctld
 	* Build system updates--remove obsolete macros, autogen.sh now
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f890dccd1..a21e0e3f9 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ dnl however, the use of '~' should be fine as apt (others?) will treat
 dnl it as an earlier version than the actual release.  TNX KA6MAL
 dnl PACKAGE_NAME + " " + PACKAGE_VERSION must not exceed 20 chars!
 AC_INIT([Hamlib],
-        [3.0~git],
+        [3.1~git],
         [hamlib-developer@lists.sourceforge.net],
         [hamlib],
         [http://www.hamlib.org])