diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 582dca10..61e665e5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,22 @@
+# Release 0.37.0-dev
+
+### New features since last release
+
+### Improvements 🛠
+
+### Breaking changes 💔
+
+### Deprecations 👋
+
+### Documentation 📝
+
+### Bug fixes 🐛
+
+### Contributors ✍️
+
+This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):
+
+---
 # Release 0.36.0
 
 ### New features since last release
diff --git a/pennylane_rigetti/_version.py b/pennylane_rigetti/_version.py
index ef5c1f64..f658ad5c 100644
--- a/pennylane_rigetti/_version.py
+++ b/pennylane_rigetti/_version.py
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
    Version number (convention major.minor.patch[-label])
 """
 
-__version__ = "0.36.0.post0"
+__version__ = "0.37.0-dev"