diff --git a/docs/developer.md b/docs/developer.md
index aca4ce4ed..f88754c50 100644
--- a/docs/developer.md
+++ b/docs/developer.md
@@ -409,8 +409,9 @@ Determine if crucial bugfixes have been made between this commit and the current
 
 * Merge the release branch (stable) into this branch.
 * Edit `freqtrade/__init__.py` and add the version matching the current date (for example `2019.7` for July 2019). Minor versions can be `2019.7.1` should we need to do a second release that month. Version numbers must follow allowed versions from PEP0440 to avoid failures pushing to pypi.
-* Commit this part
-* push that branch to the remote and create a PR against the stable branch
+* Commit this part.
+* push that branch to the remote and create a PR against the stable branch.
+* Update develop version to next version following the pattern `2019.8-dev`.
 
 ### Create changelog from git commits
 
diff --git a/freqtrade/__init__.py b/freqtrade/__init__.py
index 2572c03f1..77c305c66 100644
--- a/freqtrade/__init__.py
+++ b/freqtrade/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 """ Freqtrade bot """
-__version__ = '2022.8.dev'
+__version__ = '2022.9.dev'
 
 if 'dev' in __version__:
     try: