diff --git a/small_text/version.json b/small_text/version.json
index e175b77..6032499 100644
--- a/small_text/version.json
+++ b/small_text/version.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "major": 1,
-  "minor": 3,
-  "micro": 3,
-  "pre_release": ""
+  "minor": 4,
+  "micro": 0,
+  "pre_release": "dev1"
 }
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