diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0f1fa138..6161de14 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     </parent>
     <groupId>uk.ac.ebi.eva</groupId>
     <artifactId>contig-alias</artifactId>
-    <version>0.1.6</version>
+    <version>0.1.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <name>contig-alias</name>
     <description>Service to provide synonyms of chromosome/contig identifiers</description>
     <packaging>war</packaging>