diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 64c7641e52..24ff2ca09d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+# Release 0.15.0-dev
+
+### New features since last release
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+### Improvements
+
+### Documentation
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+### Contributors
+
+This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):
+
+---
+
 # Release 0.14.0
 
 ### Improvements
diff --git a/pennylane_lightning/_version.py b/pennylane_lightning/_version.py
index 487aca69d9..641c4a2668 100644
--- a/pennylane_lightning/_version.py
+++ b/pennylane_lightning/_version.py
@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@
    Version number (major.minor.patch[-label])
 """
 
-__version__ = "0.14.0"
+__version__ = "0.15.0-dev"