diff --git a/Maintenance/release_building/MINOR_NUMBER b/Maintenance/release_building/MINOR_NUMBER
index 7f8f011eb73..45a4fb75db8 100644
--- a/Maintenance/release_building/MINOR_NUMBER
+++ b/Maintenance/release_building/MINOR_NUMBER
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7
+8
diff --git a/Maintenance/release_building/public_release_name b/Maintenance/release_building/public_release_name
index 1ffc3e32468..07373a13fc7 100644
--- a/Maintenance/release_building/public_release_name
+++ b/Maintenance/release_building/public_release_name
@@ -1 +1 @@
-CGAL-4.7-beta2
+CGAL-4.8-dev