diff --git a/.hgtags b/.hgtags
index cf9f0ea5c..532ebf5f2 100644
--- a/.hgtags
+++ b/.hgtags
@@ -1 +1 @@
-f4a14daa04e668485a0f4544fb89b6549c00f294 0.7.0-rc1
+f4a14daa04e668485a0f4544fb89b6549c00f294 0.7-rc1
diff --git a/scrapy/__init__.py b/scrapy/__init__.py
index c4472cf8a..5e206de2f 100644
--- a/scrapy/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/__init__.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Scrapy - a screen scraping framework written in Python
 
 # IMPORTANT: remember to also update the version in docs/conf.py
 version_info = (0, 8, 0, '', 0)
-__version__ = "0.8.0-dev"
+__version__ = "0.8-dev"
 
 import sys, os