diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 5bd0570cc..0fcf38fc9 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
-AC_INIT([linphone],[3.5.99.0],[linphone-developers@nongnu.org])
+AC_INIT([linphone],[3.6.0],[linphone-developers@nongnu.org])
 AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([coreapi/linphonecore.c])