diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst
index 76af003d6..ea56cb33a 100644
--- a/docs/news.rst
+++ b/docs/news.rst
@@ -3,9 +3,14 @@
 Release notes
 =============
 
-0.20 (2013-11-08)
+0.21 (not released yet)
 -----------------------
 
+- soon...
+
+0.20 (2013-11-08)
+-----------------
+
 - New Selector's API including CSS selectors (:issue:`395` and :issue:`426`),
 - Add `cssselect`_ python package as install dependency
 - Request/Response url/body attributes are now immutable
diff --git a/scrapy/VERSION b/scrapy/VERSION
index 5a03fb737..885415662 100644
--- a/scrapy/VERSION
+++ b/scrapy/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.20.0
+0.21.0