diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ea3f635..bde0d7a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
   <groupId>org.onap.so</groupId>
   <artifactId>so</artifactId>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
-  <version>1.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>so</name>
   <description>This Maven project is responsible to build and package all child projects - contributions in the MSO project.
 	This build can be configured to run Functional tests and to start/stop a jboss server + Mysql DB.