diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9b7733be..2c491a83 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ docs/_build/
 *.swp
 .tox/
 .coverage
+sleekxmpp.egg-info/
diff --git a/sleekxmpp/version.py b/sleekxmpp/version.py
index 037c6463..543932a5 100644
--- a/sleekxmpp/version.py
+++ b/sleekxmpp/version.py
@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@
 # We don't want to have to import the entire library
 # just to get the version info for setup.py
 
-__version__ = '1.0'
-__version_info__ = (1, 0, 0, '', 0)
+__version__ = '1.0.1dev'
+__version_info__ = (1, 0, 1, 'dev', 0)