diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c5f067e5e..4e1e5f21b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
   <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
   <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-  <version>6.20-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>7.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <name>checkstyle</name>