diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6294b3c..15fc7d6 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1008,7 +1008,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "ripgrep_all"
-version = "0.9.6"
+version = "0.9.7-alpha.0"
 dependencies = [
  "bincode",
  "bzip2",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ccd6dc7..50c9a2e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ name = "ripgrep_all"
 description = "rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc."
 license = "AGPL-3.0-or-later"
 readme = "README.md"
-version = "0.9.6"
+version = "0.9.7-alpha.0"
 repository = "https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all"
 homepage = "https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all"
 authors = ["phiresky <phireskyde+git@gmail.com>"]