diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index f0f65c861f4e59747d810120ac4316d145782b42..9548667977ef9dfff28e32f18e9733515b0b4078 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import functools
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '3.7.1'
+version = '3.7.2dev1'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
 #release = '2.16dev5'
 release = version
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ae812332f484268b5286888e48d936d8ac1d841d..a5e327d49cb2617efbe843d2c681db493cde4f7e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import stat
 import sys
 
 #VERSION = "2.1dev4"
-VERSION = "3.7.1"
+VERSION = "3.7.2dev1"
 
 # Taken from kennethreitz/requests/setup.py
 package_directory = os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(__file__))