diff --git a/NP-VERSION-GEN b/NP-VERSION-GEN
index dd74d0cd..c353b1d1 100755
--- a/NP-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/NP-VERSION-GEN
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 SRC_ROOT=`dirname $0`
 
 NPVF=NP-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=2.3
+DEF_VER=2.3git
 
 LF='
 '
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 562efcde..7c17dcd1 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 AC_PREREQ(2.59)
-AC_INIT(monitoring-plugins,2.3)
+AC_INIT(monitoring-plugins,2.3git)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(NPTest.pm)
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([gl/Makefile])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(build-aux)