diff --git a/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION b/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION
index 0a1ffad4..11e5891f 100644
--- a/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION
+++ b/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.7.4
+0.9.0-alpha.0