diff --git a/dashboard/project.xml b/dashboard/project.xml
index 64de2e90..30257576 100644
--- a/dashboard/project.xml
+++ b/dashboard/project.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-dashboard-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Dashboard Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.7</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.8-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
   <description>Generate a dashboard containing global statistics about other maven reports</description>
   <shortDescription>Generate a statistic dashboard</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/dashboard/</url>
diff --git a/dashboard/xdocs/changes.xml b/dashboard/xdocs/changes.xml
index a2d34ba9..70a0df8a 100644
--- a/dashboard/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/dashboard/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
     <author email="vmassol@apache.org">Vincent Massol</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
+    <release version="1.8-SNAPSHOT" date="in SVN">
+    </release>
     <release version="1.7" date="2005-03-05">
       <action dev="vmassol" type="add" issue="MPDASHBOARD-9" due-to="Philippe Kernevez">Added links to reports for all aggregators.</action>
       <action dev="vmassol" type="add" due-to="Siegfried Goeschl">Added aggregators for JavaNCSS.</action>
