diff --git a/java/ci/README.md b/java/ci/README.md
index d74c7b41157..538e18c37c5 100644
--- a/java/ci/README.md
+++ b/java/ci/README.md
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ nvidia-docker run -it cudf-build:11.5.0-devel-centos7 bash
 You can download the cuDF repo in the docker container or you can mount it into the container.
 Here I choose to download again in the container.
 ```bash
-git clone --recursive https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf.git -b branch-22.10
+git clone --recursive https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf.git -b branch-22.12
 ```
 
 ### Build cuDF jar with devtoolset
@@ -47,5 +47,5 @@ scl enable devtoolset-9 "java/ci/build-in-docker.sh"
 
 ### The output
 
-You can find the cuDF jar in java/target/ like cudf-22.10.0-SNAPSHOT-cuda11.jar.
+You can find the cuDF jar in java/target/ like cudf-22.12.0-SNAPSHOT-cuda11.jar.
 
diff --git a/java/pom.xml b/java/pom.xml
index f2bb3def459..10d5c7ec360 100644
--- a/java/pom.xml
+++ b/java/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
     <groupId>ai.rapids</groupId>
     <artifactId>cudf</artifactId>
-    <version>22.10.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>22.12.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
     <name>cudfjni</name>
     <description>