diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index bb22596..974441c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 	<groupId>org.onap.clamp</groupId>
 	<artifactId>clds</artifactId>
-	<version>4.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>5.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 	<name>clamp</name>
 
 
diff --git a/version.properties b/version.properties
index e7d853a..77d0501 100644
--- a/version.properties
+++ b/version.properties
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
 # Note that these variables cannot be structured (e.g. : version.release or version.snapshot etc... )
 # because they are used in Jenkins, whose plug-in doesn't support
 
-major=4
-minor=2
+major=5
+minor=0
 patch=0
 
 base_version=${major}.${minor}.${patch}