diff --git a/buildconfig/CMake/VersionNumber.cmake b/buildconfig/CMake/VersionNumber.cmake
index ad429218ae4cc034c41c629a38778453c12f338f..4c0f5128e8b939456c1cfba33f38779ebbdc5887 100644
--- a/buildconfig/CMake/VersionNumber.cmake
+++ b/buildconfig/CMake/VersionNumber.cmake
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Set the version number here for MantidVersion and the package filenames
 
 set ( VERSION_MAJOR 3 )
-set ( VERSION_MINOR 12 )
+set ( VERSION_MINOR 13 )
 
 # UNCOMMENT the next 'set' line to 'force' the patch version number to
 # a value (instead of using the count coming out of 'git describe')