diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4457a79..2f39063 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <groupId>io.github.cybercentrecanada</groupId>
   <artifactId>spark-msgpack-datasource-3.5_2.12</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
-  <version>1.7.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>spark-msgpack-datasource</name>
   <description>A spark datasource implementation for the msgpack file format.</description>
   <url>https://github.com/CybercentreCanada/spark-msgpack-datasource</url>