diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 043391af..278acc71 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ packages = { find = { include = ["compose_rl*"] } }
 
 [project]
 name = "compose_rl"
-version = "0.7.0.dev0"
+version = "0.8.0.dev0"
 dependencies = [
     'spacy==3.7.5',
     'spacy-alignments',