diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e4ec82b3..8ce19e9a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,22 @@ All notable changes to Oragono will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/). For the purposes of versioning, we consider the "public API" to refer to the configuration files, CLI interface and database format.
 
 
+## Unreleased
+New release of Oragono!
+
+### Config Changes
+
+### Security
+
+### Added
+
+### Changed
+
+### Removed
+
+### Fixed
+
+
 ## [0.8.1] - 2017-06-26
 Lots of quality-of-life fixes, improved oversight for opers, and a proposed channel renaming command!
 
diff --git a/irc/constants.go b/irc/constants.go
index 9dc63122..940d2d92 100644
--- a/irc/constants.go
+++ b/irc/constants.go
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import "fmt"
 
 const (
 	// SemVer is the semantic version of Oragono.
-	SemVer = "0.8.1"
+	SemVer = "0.8.2-unreleased"
 )
 
 var (