diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4acc94ba..6771b4aa 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 	<groupId>io.strimzi</groupId>
 	<artifactId>kafka-bridge</artifactId>
-	<version>0.27.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>0.28.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
 	<name>Strimzi Kafka Bridge</name>
 	<description>Bridge that allows HTTP clients to interact with Apache Kafka clusters.</description>
diff --git a/release.version b/release.version
index 7e9b4cfe..c55fc9b3 100644
--- a/release.version
+++ b/release.version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.27.0-SNAPSHOT
+0.28.0-SNAPSHOT