diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 951f8e056..7a5a1b709 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Package: PatientLevelPrediction
 Type: Package
 Title: Developing patient level prediction using data in the OMOP Common Data
     Model
-Version: 6.3.7
+Version: 6.3.7.9999
 Date: 2024-04-04
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Jenna", "Reps", email = "jreps@its.jnj.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index f81eb0a3d..37fd20ce1 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+PatientLevelPrediction 6.3.7.9999
+======================
+
 PatientLevelPrediction 6.3.7
 ======================
 - Clean up dependencies, tibble removed and IHT and ParallelLogger from CRAN