diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index a7c8b261..c15e9bc7 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Description: Encapsulates functions to streamline calls from R to the REDCap
     University.  The Application Programming Interface (API) offers an avenue
     to access and modify data programmatically, improving the capacity for
     literate and reproducible programming.
-Version: 1.4.0
+Version: 1.4.0.9000
 Authors@R: c(person("Will", "Beasley", role = c("aut", "cre"), email =
     "wibeasley@hotmail.com", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-5613-5006")),
     person("David", "Bard", role = "ctb", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-3922-8489")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 11d5eb0f..98c134fa 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# REDCapR (development version)
+
+# Release History
+
+
 Version 1.4.0  (released 2025-01-11)
 ==========================================================