diff --git a/include/curl/curl.h b/include/curl/curl.h
index 54d6ae3da..f4cf0318c 100644
--- a/include/curl/curl.h
+++ b/include/curl/curl.h
@@ -503,8 +503,8 @@ void curl_global_cleanup(void);
 
 
 /* This is the version number */
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.7.4-pre3"
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x070704
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.8-pre1"
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x070800
 
 /* linked-list structure for the CURLOPT_QUOTE option (and other) */
 struct curl_slist {
diff --git a/maketgz b/maketgz
index bc1914244..8c1b98ddf 100755
--- a/maketgz
+++ b/maketgz
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ findprog()
 # Enforce a rerun of configure (updates the VERSION)
 #
 
-#./config.status --recheck
+./config.status --recheck
 
 ############################################################################
 #
diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index 75e2583ed..768cca6b5 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #define CURL_NAME "curl"
-#define CURL_VERSION "7.7.4-pre2"
+#define CURL_VERSION "7.8-pre1"
 #define CURL_ID CURL_NAME " " CURL_VERSION " (" OS ") "