diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 151e67d9..e39fe778 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-01-19  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>
+
+	* configure.in: add note about how this is the unstable branch,
+	set version to 2.5.0
+
 2003-01-14  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>
 
 	* src/window.c (meta_window_maximize, meta_window_unmaximize) 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 6be1af64..9d86c02d 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 
 # 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987 
 # releases on a branch add a 4th version like 2.4.21.1
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(metacity, 2.4.13)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(metacity, 2.5.0) ## note, haven't released 2.5.0
 
 # Honor aclocal flags
 ACLOCAL="$ACLOCAL $ACLOCAL_FLAGS"
@@ -381,3 +381,4 @@ metacity-$VERSION:
 	Xsync:                    ${found_xsync}
         Deprecated config dialog: ${enable_config_dialog}
 "
+echo "This is the UNSTABLE branch of metacity, use 2.4.x for stable (gnome-2-2 branch in CVS)"