diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5ff0eea739..9ad9233a8f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 name        = "nix"
 description = "Rust friendly bindings to *nix APIs"
 edition     = "2018"
-version     = "0.22.2"
+version     = "0.22.3-alpha.0"
 authors     = ["The nix-rust Project Developers"]
 repository  = "https://github.com/nix-rust/nix"
 license     = "MIT"