diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 3cf9bba0..3c4de9c9 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
   <groupId>com.github.jnr</groupId>
   <artifactId>jnr-ffi</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
-  <version>2.2.8</version>
+  <version>2.2.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>jnr-ffi</name>
   <description>A library for invoking native functions from java</description>
   <url>http://github.com/jnr/jnr-ffi</url>