diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 01e5ecacf5b..5a4e5739ff3 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Homepage = "https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-py"
 "Source Code" = "https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-py/"
 
 [tool.setuptools_scm]
-version_scheme = "release-branch-semver"
+version_scheme = "guess-next-dev"
 write_to = "ddtrace/_version.py"
 
 [tool.isort]