diff --git a/doc/mkexp.fodt b/doc/mkexp.fodt
index 1ea5c40436fb1171bf26f0e4ec3ac73dceb28674..ab0cf392d5484520d7c129c40ccfaf3c94618675 100644
--- a/doc/mkexp.fodt
+++ b/doc/mkexp.fodt
@@ -3252,7 +3252,7 @@
    </text:sequence-decls>
    <text:p text:style-name="P424">Make Experiments!</text:p>
    <text:p text:style-name="P5">Run-script generation for earth system models</text:p>
-   <text:p text:style-name="P333">Release 1.4.2rc2</text:p>
+   <text:p text:style-name="P333">Release 1.4.2-dev</text:p>
    <text:p text:style-name="P389">Karl-Hermann Wieners<text:line-break/><text:span text:style-name="T322">Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie<text:line-break/>Hamburg</text:span></text:p>
    <text:table-of-content text:style-name="Sect1" text:protected="true" text:name="Table of Contents1">
     <text:table-of-content-source text:outline-level="10">
diff --git a/package_info.py b/package_info.py
index 4f39cc1495acbfa16fe07d07a50455eff1bc6188..ae69d079b74b763ac9a94e946273b743d2167824 100644
--- a/package_info.py
+++ b/package_info.py
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ Information on package name and version
 
 full_name = 'Make Experiments!'
 name = 'mkexp'
-version = '1.4.2rc2'
+version = '1.4.2-dev'