diff --git a/lib/puppet/version.rb b/lib/puppet/version.rb
index 03fe5a669..368d8639d 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/version.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/version.rb
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 # The version method and constant are isolated in puppet/version.rb so that a
 # simple `require 'puppet/version'` allows a rubygems gemspec or bundler
 # Gemfile to get the Puppet version of the gem install.
 #
 # The version is programatically settable because we want to allow the
 # Raketasks and such to set the version based on the output of `git describe`
 #
 module Puppet
-  PUPPETVERSION = '2.7.19'
+  PUPPETVERSION = '2.7.20-rc1'
 
   def self.version
     @puppet_version || PUPPETVERSION
   end
 
   def self.version=(version)
     @puppet_version = version
   end
 end