diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0d9e211d21600b672dbbc81ecec1da41a6e7b708..bcef5eacfe6ad4a642c77b8e36225b0e52d9f683 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Changelog is kept at [GitHub](https://github.com/Dronehub/minijson/releases),
 here's only the changelog for the version in development
 
-# v1.3
+# v1.4
 
-* object keys don't have to be strings anymore
+* _TBA_
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 16efff6fd109f3e4e3ffb53a4d84653e0fcf82da..0c5f94595b230aecfda292a2f3239fbcc422179d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ if 'DEBUG' in os.environ:
     directives['embedsignature'] = True
 
 
-setup(version='1.3',
+setup(version='1.4a1',
       packages=find_packages(include=['minijson', 'minijson.*']),
       ext_modules=build([Multibuild('minijson', find_pyx('minijson'),
                                     dont_snakehouse=dont_snakehouse), ],