diff --git a/eng/Versions.props b/eng/Versions.props
index a4ad24140fc..3a4299b0700 100644
--- a/eng/Versions.props
+++ b/eng/Versions.props
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <VersionPrefix>6.0.0</VersionPrefix>
-    <PreReleaseVersionLabel>rc</PreReleaseVersionLabel>
+    <VersionPrefix>7.0.0</VersionPrefix>
+    <PreReleaseVersionLabel>alpha</PreReleaseVersionLabel>
     <PreReleaseVersionIteration>1</PreReleaseVersionIteration>
     <SystemIOPackagingVersion>6.0.0-rc.1.21417.1</SystemIOPackagingVersion>
     <SystemResourcesExtensionsVersion>6.0.0-rc.1.21417.1</SystemResourcesExtensionsVersion>
diff --git a/eng/WpfArcadeSdk/Sdk/Sdk.props b/eng/WpfArcadeSdk/Sdk/Sdk.props
index f4bd71bf1ef..b1855fe8f09 100644
--- a/eng/WpfArcadeSdk/Sdk/Sdk.props
+++ b/eng/WpfArcadeSdk/Sdk/Sdk.props
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <GenXmlStringTable>$(WpfArcadeSdkToolsDir)GenXmlStringTable.pl</GenXmlStringTable>
-    <LangVersion Condition="'$(LangVersion)'=='' and ($(PreReleaseVersionLabel.Contains('rc')) or $(PreReleaseVersionLabel.Contains('preview')))">preview</LangVersion>
+    <LangVersion Condition="'$(LangVersion)'=='' and ($(PreReleaseVersionLabel.Contains('rc')) or $(PreReleaseVersionLabel.Contains('preview')) or $(PreReleaseVersionLabel.Contains('alpha')))">preview</LangVersion>
     <LangVersion Condition="'$(LangVersion)'==''">10</LangVersion>
     <CLSCompliant Condition="'$(CLSCompliant)'==''">true</CLSCompliant>
     <IncludeDllSafeSearchPathAttribute Condition="'$(IncludeDllSafeSearchPathAttribute )'==''">true</IncludeDllSafeSearchPathAttribute>