diff --git a/MySQLdb/setup.py b/MySQLdb/setup.py
index b4be253..4b53d32 100644
--- a/MySQLdb/setup.py
+++ b/MySQLdb/setup.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ MySQLdb. MySQLdb is free software.
 
 setup (# Distribution meta-data
         name = "MySQL-python",
-        version = "0.9.2",
+        version = "0.9.2a1",
         description = "An interface to MySQL",
         long_description=long_description,
         author = "Andy Dustman",