diff --git a/buildah.go b/buildah.go
index 427950c5cab..1c7342f1410 100644
--- a/buildah.go
+++ b/buildah.go
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ const (
 	Package = "buildah"
 	// Version for the Package.  Bump version in contrib/rpm/buildah.spec
 	// too.
-	Version = "1.19.8"
+	Version = "1.19.9-dev"
 	// The value we use to identify what type of information, currently a
 	// serialized Builder structure, we are using as per-container state.
 	// This should only be changed when we make incompatible changes to
diff --git a/contrib/rpm/buildah.spec b/contrib/rpm/buildah.spec
index d484dcab836..3e822b27196 100644
--- a/contrib/rpm/buildah.spec
+++ b/contrib/rpm/buildah.spec
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
 Name:           buildah
 # Bump version in buildah.go too
-Version:        1.19.8
+Version:        1.19.9-dev
 Release:        1.git%{shortcommit}%{?dist}
 Summary:        A command line tool used to creating OCI Images
 License:        ASL 2.0