diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c68f5855e..7cf2c010a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+# Release 0.17.0-dev
+
+### New features since last release
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+### Improvements
+
+### Documentation
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+### Contributors
+
+This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):
+
+---
+
 # Release 0.16.0
 
 ### New features since last release
diff --git a/pennylane_qiskit/_version.py b/pennylane_qiskit/_version.py
index 26ca355c0..aca746a7f 100644
--- a/pennylane_qiskit/_version.py
+++ b/pennylane_qiskit/_version.py
@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@
    Version number (major.minor.patch[-label])
 """
 
-__version__ = "0.16.0"
+__version__ = "0.17.0-dev"
diff --git a/pennylane_qiskit/qiskit_device.py b/pennylane_qiskit/qiskit_device.py
index dcd09ca66..632e923ad 100644
--- a/pennylane_qiskit/qiskit_device.py
+++ b/pennylane_qiskit/qiskit_device.py
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ class QiskitDevice(QubitDevice, abc.ABC):
     """
     name = "Qiskit PennyLane plugin"
     pennylane_requires = ">=0.16.0"
-    version = "0.16.0"
+    version = __version__
     plugin_version = __version__
     author = "Xanadu"