diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1ea03a930..64475d9ff 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Changelog for version 8.2
+--------------
+
+* begin work on the next version
+
 Changelog for version 8.1
 --------------
 
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index acc5db39e..f9e0b83de 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.19)
 
 cmake_policy(VERSION 3.19)
-project(Tasmanian VERSION 8.1.0 LANGUAGES CXX)
-set(Tasmanian_version_comment "") # e.g., " (release candidate)", " (development)", ""
+project(Tasmanian VERSION 8.2.0 LANGUAGES CXX)
+set(Tasmanian_version_comment " (development)") # e.g., " (release candidate)", " (development)", ""
 set(Tasmanian_license "BSD 3-Clause with UT-Battelle disclaimer") # used in some headers and python modules (only human readable)
 
 ########################################################################
diff --git a/Config/AltBuildSystems/TasmanianConfig.hpp b/Config/AltBuildSystems/TasmanianConfig.hpp
index 527de5934..776e3d4e8 100644
--- a/Config/AltBuildSystems/TasmanianConfig.hpp
+++ b/Config/AltBuildSystems/TasmanianConfig.hpp
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@
 #define __TASMANIAN_CONFIG_HPP
 
 #define TASMANIAN_VERSION_MAJOR 8
-#define TASMANIAN_VERSION_MINOR 1
-#define TASMANIAN_VERSION_STRING "8.1"
+#define TASMANIAN_VERSION_MINOR 2
+#define TASMANIAN_VERSION_STRING "8.2"
 #define TASMANIAN_LICENSE "BSD 3-Clause with UT-Battelle disclaimer"
 
 #define TASMANIAN_GIT_COMMIT_HASH "Tasmanian git hash is not available here"
diff --git a/InterfacePython/PipInstaller/setup.py b/InterfacePython/PipInstaller/setup.py
index a5c220924..4bc325181 100644
--- a/InterfacePython/PipInstaller/setup.py
+++ b/InterfacePython/PipInstaller/setup.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
 # call the actual package setup command
 setup(
     name='Tasmanian',
-    version='8.1',
+    version='8.2b1',
     author='Miroslav Stoyanov',
     author_email='stoyanovmk@ornl.gov',
     description='UQ library for sparse grids, optimization and Bayesian inference',
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c3bdf7cd5..ae0077ef9 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ Tasmanian.py: libtasmaniancaddons.so
 	@echo " -- building the Python module"
 	cp ./InterfacePython/TasmanianConfig.in.py TasmanianConfig.py
 	sed -i -e 's|@Tasmanian_VERSION_MAJOR@|'8'|g' ./TasmanianConfig.py
-	sed -i -e 's|@Tasmanian_VERSION_MINOR@|'1'|g' ./TasmanianConfig.py
+	sed -i -e 's|@Tasmanian_VERSION_MINOR@|'2'|g' ./TasmanianConfig.py
 	sed -i -e 's|@Tasmanian_license@|'BSD\ 3-Clause\ with\ UT-Battelle\ disclaimer'|g' ./TasmanianConfig.py
 	sed -i -e 's|@Tasmanian_git_hash@|'Tasmanian\ git\ hash\ is\ not\ available\ here'|g' ./TasmanianConfig.py
 	sed -i -e 's|@Tasmanian_libsparsegrid_path@|'`pwd`/libtasmaniansparsegrid.so'|g' ./TasmanianConfig.py