diff --git a/src/misc.cpp b/src/misc.cpp
index 5f8f31a9f..3ddae503c 100644
--- a/src/misc.cpp
+++ b/src/misc.cpp
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ namespace Stockfish {
 namespace {
 
 // Version number or dev.
-constexpr std::string_view version = "18";
+constexpr std::string_view version = "dev";
 
 // Our fancy logging facility. The trick here is to replace cin.rdbuf() and
 // cout.rdbuf() with two Tie objects that tie cin and cout to a file stream. We