diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 092d8313..67a25839 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
   <!-- define Maven coordinates -->
   <property name="groupId" value="de.thetaphi" />
   <property name="artifactId" value="forbiddenapis" />
-  <property name="version" value="2.7-SNAPSHOT"/>
+  <property name="version" value="2.8-SNAPSHOT"/>
   
   <property name="description" value="Allows to parse Java byte code to find invocations of method/class/field signatures and fail build (Apache Ant, Apache Maven, Gradle, or CLI)"/>