diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 44c86be5..1eae5a0f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,12 @@ Changelog
 =========
 
 Unreleased
+==========
+
+
+4.0.0.dev1 (2021-12-14)
 ==================
+
 * feat: Exposed the setting DJANGOCMS_SNIPPET_VERSIONING_MIGRATION_USER_ID as an environment variable for the Divio addon
 * fix: Error when rendering a Draft Snippet plugin on a Published page
 * fix: Publish snippets by default as they were already in that state pre-versioning and cleanup unnecessary migration files before release!
diff --git a/djangocms_snippet/__init__.py b/djangocms_snippet/__init__.py
index 22b8ebf7..446f7c9a 100644
--- a/djangocms_snippet/__init__.py
+++ b/djangocms_snippet/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-__version__ = '3.0.0'
+__version__ = '4.0.0.dev1'
 
 default_app_config = 'djangocms_snippet.apps.SnippetConfig'