diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index b6e91f17..e69de29b 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-* Resource Factory: support for range in sheet for instance generation (#1881)
-* Validator: Don't enforce code system property references to standard properties in R4 (R4 hack workaround)
-* Validator: Correctly handle supplements when validating based on expansions
-* Validator: Fix issues with version dependent resolution of correct server for implicit value sets
-* Validator: Better handle failure to find imported value sets when expanding
-* Validator: correct error handling for expansion failure
-* Validator: Correct grammar in language about resource not being valid against a profile
-* Validator: Fix NPE generating snapshots with expansions
-* Validator: Accept property in CodeSystem without requiring it be backed by a code
-* Validator: Add issue when extension is deprecated
-* Renderer: Track & report expansion source when rendering ValueSet expansions
-* Renderer: Render ValueSet supplement dependencies
-* Renderer: Fix Actor rendering in obligations tables
-* Renderer: move xml-no-order to tools ig
-* Renderer: better presentation of expansion failures
-* Renderer: fix rendering of deprecated extensions
-* Renderer: Better resolution of links in markdown
-* QA: better handling of message ids in qa.html
-* Go-Publish: add support for nginx
diff --git a/org.hl7.fhir.publisher.cli/pom.xml b/org.hl7.fhir.publisher.cli/pom.xml
index 195bb561..99cf5691 100644
--- a/org.hl7.fhir.publisher.cli/pom.xml
+++ b/org.hl7.fhir.publisher.cli/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <parent>
         <artifactId>org.hl7.fhir.publisher</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.hl7.fhir.publisher</groupId>
-        <version>1.8.8</version>
+        <version>1.8.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/org.hl7.fhir.publisher.core/pom.xml b/org.hl7.fhir.publisher.core/pom.xml
index d7afc5a5..01e3a043 100644
--- a/org.hl7.fhir.publisher.core/pom.xml
+++ b/org.hl7.fhir.publisher.core/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.hl7.fhir.publisher</groupId>
         <artifactId>org.hl7.fhir.publisher</artifactId>
-        <version>1.8.8</version>
+        <version>1.8.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4db499e0..12b7729c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
     <groupId>org.hl7.fhir.publisher</groupId>
     <artifactId>org.hl7.fhir.publisher</artifactId>
-    <version>1.8.8</version>
+    <version>1.8.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
 
     <properties>