diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 3cd6a5a61..4d50f50ce 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "actix-web"
-version = "2.0.0"
+version = "3.0.0-alpha.1"
 authors = ["Nikolay Kim <fafhrd91@gmail.com>"]
 description = "Actix web is a simple, pragmatic and extremely fast web framework for Rust."
 readme = "README.md"