diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ccf21120..e820e770 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.67])
-AC_INIT([cryptsetup],[2.6.1])
+AC_INIT([cryptsetup],[2.7.0-git])
 
 dnl library version from <major>.<minor>.<release>[-<suffix>]
 LIBCRYPTSETUP_VERSION=$(echo $PACKAGE_VERSION | cut -f1 -d-)
diff --git a/lib/meson.build b/lib/meson.build
index c682150d..eafab128 100644
--- a/lib/meson.build
+++ b/lib/meson.build
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ libutils_io = static_library('utils_io',
     ))
 
 libcryptsetup_sym_path = join_paths(meson.current_source_dir(), 'libcryptsetup.sym')
-libcryptsetup_version = '12.9.0'
 
 libcryptsetup_deps = [
     uuid,
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index bc9a9785..7368fb3d 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 project('cryptsetup',
     'c',
     meson_version: '>=0.53',
-    version: '2.6.1-rc0')
+    version: '2.7.0-git')
+
+libcryptsetup_version = '12.9.0'
 
 includes_root = include_directories('.')
 includes_lib = include_directories('lib')
@@ -17,7 +19,7 @@ cc = meson.get_compiler('c')
 nop_command = find_program('echo')
 conf = configuration_data()
 
-PACKAGE_VERSION = meson.project_version().split('-')[0]
+PACKAGE_VERSION = meson.project_version()
 conf.set_quoted('PACKAGE_VERSION', PACKAGE_VERSION)
 conf.set_quoted('PACKAGE_NAME', meson.project_name())
 conf.set_quoted('PACKAGE', meson.project_name())