diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 545b449b2bd35925d262c301d1feb50361da120f..f3b9681251cb6e90501c6f808894759333358578 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.8.6)
 project (opendht)
-set (opendht_VERSION_MAJOR 0)
-set (opendht_VERSION_MINOR 6.1)
+set (opendht_VERSION_MAJOR 1)
+set (opendht_VERSION_MINOR 0.0)
 set (opendht_VERSION ${opendht_VERSION_MAJOR}.${opendht_VERSION_MINOR})
 set (PACKAGE_VERSION ${opendht_VERSION})
 set (VERSION "${opendht_VERSION}")
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ffa686a3a25dca5bafda664ba2024c8eded0f7bf..9850d9a291b86ba353fdc9c4fbd415bbbf06a0d5 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 dnl define macros
-m4_define([opendht_major_version], 0)
-m4_define([opendht_minor_version], 6)
-m4_define([opendht_patch_version], 1)
+m4_define([opendht_major_version], 1)
+m4_define([opendht_minor_version], 0)
+m4_define([opendht_patch_version], 0)
 m4_define([opendht_version],
 		  [opendht_major_version.opendht_minor_version.opendht_patch_version])