diff --git a/scrapy/__init__.py b/scrapy/__init__.py
index 3d8a7a4ae..c73dae498 100644
--- a/scrapy/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/__init__.py
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 Scrapy - a screen scraping framework written in Python
 """
 
-version_info = (0, 12, 0)
-__version__ = "0.12.0"
+version_info = (0, 13, 0)
+__version__ = "0.13.0"
 
 import sys, os, warnings