diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7cfaa5a..f65f38f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+## CHARLIE development version
+
 ## CHARLIE 0.11.1
 
 - CHARLIE was falsely throwing a file permissions error for tempdir values containing bash variables. (#118, @kelly-sovacool)
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index af88ba8..72ab694 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.11.1
+0.11.1-dev