diff --git a/README b/README
index 8272d609a64ee705661f7d9b9aa59fb19a87d2aa..748425577bd7ef4701d018bfe642393fcbb1f373 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
- OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre5 (beta) 17 Apr 2018
+ OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6-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 8284659695f66f4d1a5ea62fde8e93d1a036b133..fc1e2b5f45b13b2aa34a2f04818f1d4ee41212f4 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  0x10101005L
-# define OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT    "OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre5 (beta) 17 Apr 2018"
+# define OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER  0x10101006L
+# define OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT    "OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6-dev  xx XXX xxxx"
 
 /*-
  * The macros below are to be used for shared library (.so, .dll, ...)