diff --git a/include/curl/curl.h b/include/curl/curl.h
index e547136acaa363dc1959ea716e029982b5111074..eb3c2a79a528cf86ac97e9eae676b5c2db347322 100644
--- a/include/curl/curl.h
+++ b/include/curl/curl.h
@@ -779,8 +779,8 @@ CURLcode curl_global_init(long flags);
 void curl_global_cleanup(void);
 
 /* This is the version number */
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.9.9-pre1"
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x070909
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.10-pre2"
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x070a00
 
 /* linked-list structure for the CURLOPT_QUOTE option (and other) */
 struct curl_slist {
diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index fc93cf0cc1ca5240a2bdefb46939f089599d8a17..845aa543dc1a16c8e271904d5eed824bb5964264 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #define CURL_NAME "curl"
-#define CURL_VERSION "7.9.9-pre1"
+#define CURL_VERSION "7.10-pre2"
 #define CURL_ID CURL_NAME " " CURL_VERSION " (" OS ") "