diff --git a/README b/README
index 84733838b6..d6c365529b 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
- OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre8 (beta) 20 Jun 2018
+ OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre9-dev
 
  Copyright (c) 1998-2018 The OpenSSL Project
  Copyright (c) 1995-1998 Eric A. Young, Tim J. Hudson
diff --git a/include/openssl/opensslv.h b/include/openssl/opensslv.h
index 8c0d0b2de6..a4e75db5f9 100644
--- a/include/openssl/opensslv.h
+++ b/include/openssl/opensslv.h
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ extern "C" {
  * (Prior to 0.9.5a beta1, a different scheme was used: MMNNFFRBB for
  *  major minor fix final patch/beta)
  */
-# define OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER  0x10101008L
-# define OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT    "OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre8 (beta) 20 Jun 2018"
+# define OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER  0x10101009L
+# define OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT    "OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre9-dev  xx XXX xxxx"
 
 /*-
  * The macros below are to be used for shared library (.so, .dll, ...)