diff --git a/lib/pdk/version.rb b/lib/pdk/version.rb
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/lib/pdk/version.rb
+++ b/lib/pdk/version.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 module PDK
-  VERSION = '2.5.0'.freeze
+  VERSION = '2.6.0-pre'.freeze
   TEMPLATE_REF = '2.5.0'.freeze
 end
(PDK-<I>) Bump PDK version

This commit bumps the pdk version to <I>-pre as per the post release
guidance.