diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 4ee79d0e8588afc9902417e1e256f1f9276b5769..63feca8605cc1fb2d2964877e77c9cff8e51edaa 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # It is not used when building Dynare as a whole.
 
 project('dynare-preprocessor', 'cpp',
-        version : '6-unstable',
+        version : '7-unstable',
         # NB: update C++ standard in .clang-format whenever the following is modified
         default_options : [ 'cpp_std=gnu++20', 'warning_level=2' ],
         meson_version : '>=0.64.0')