diff --git a/paper-api/pom.xml b/paper-api/pom.xml
index d288bb9216..e13c4e9de8 100644
--- a/paper-api/pom.xml
+++ b/paper-api/pom.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>org.bukkit</groupId>
     <artifactId>bukkit</artifactId>
-    <version>1.8.1-R5-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.9-pre5-R1-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <name>Bukkit</name>
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>