diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 7e393baf8..895537ea8 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 org.gradle.jvmargs='-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8'
 
 GROUP=com.squareup.okhttp3
-VERSION_NAME=4.3.0
+VERSION_NAME=4.4.0-SNAPSHOT
 
 POM_URL=https://github.com/square/okhttp
 POM_SCM_URL=https://github.com/square/okhttp