diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 977b9d0d2a..e77fd63661 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,12 +4,29 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 
+
+## [unreleased] - YYYY-MM-DD
+
+### Added
+
+
+### Changed
+
+
+### Deprecated
+
+
+### Removed
+
+
+### Fixed
+
+
 ## [0.8.4] - 2020-07-01
 
 ### Added
 
 - Added reduce ddp results on eval ([#2434](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/2434))
-
 - Added a warning when an `IterableDataset` has `__len__` defined ([#2437](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/2437))
 
 ### Changed
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/__init__.py b/pytorch_lightning/__init__.py
index d43c0578c1..9a6469fc72 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/__init__.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """Root package info."""
 
-__version__ = '0.8.4'
+__version__ = '0.8.5-dev'
 __author__ = 'William Falcon et al.'
 __author_email__ = 'waf2107@columbia.edu'
 __license__ = 'Apache-2.0'