diff --git a/include/spdk/version.h b/include/spdk/version.h
index cd0d904ca..c1a99e049 100644
--- a/include/spdk/version.h
+++ b/include/spdk/version.h
@@ -54,12 +54,12 @@
  * Patch level is incremented on maintenance branch releases and reset to 0 for each
  * new major.minor release.
  */
-#define SPDK_VERSION_PATCH	1
+#define SPDK_VERSION_PATCH	2
 
 /**
  * Version string suffix.
  */
-#define SPDK_VERSION_SUFFIX	""
+#define SPDK_VERSION_SUFFIX	"-pre"
 
 /**
  * Single numeric value representing a version number for compile-time comparisons.