diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 9fa1e1cada..b1ce7f22c0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 Please view this file on the master branch, on stable branches it's out of date.
 
+v 8.9.0 (unreleased)
+
 v 8.8.2 (unreleased)
   - Fix Error 500 when accessing application settings due to nil disabled OAuth sign-in sources
   - Fix Error 500 in CI charts by gracefully handling commits with no durations
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index d5a967c393..6c07f65628 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-8.8.0-pre
+8.9.0-pre