diff --git a/cmd/dcrctl/version.go b/cmd/dcrctl/version.go
index 51464fa8c6..8b9d681009 100644
--- a/cmd/dcrctl/version.go
+++ b/cmd/dcrctl/version.go
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 // Copyright (c) 2013 The btcsuite developers
-// Copyright (c) 2015-2017 The Decred developers
+// Copyright (c) 2015-2018 The Decred developers
 // Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@ const semanticAlphabet = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqr
 // versioning 2.0.0 spec (http://semver.org/).
 const (
 	appMajor uint = 1
-	appMinor uint = 3
+	appMinor uint = 4
 	appPatch uint = 0
 
 	// appPreRelease MUST only contain characters from semanticAlphabet
 	// per the semantic versioning spec.
-	appPreRelease = ""
+	appPreRelease = "pre"
 )
 
 // appBuild is defined as a variable so it can be overridden during the build
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 632a9152a8..45ff9e75e8 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/decred/dcrd/hdkeychain v1.1.0
 	github.com/decred/dcrd/mempool v1.0.1
 	github.com/decred/dcrd/mining v1.0.1
-	github.com/decred/dcrd/peer v1.0.1
+	github.com/decred/dcrd/peer v1.0.2
 	github.com/decred/dcrd/rpcclient v1.0.1
 	github.com/decred/dcrd/txscript v1.0.1
 	github.com/decred/dcrd/wire v1.1.0
diff --git a/version.go b/version.go
index d7851b06b2..b7bb789952 100644
--- a/version.go
+++ b/version.go
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 // Copyright (c) 2013-2014 The btcsuite developers
-// Copyright (c) 2015-2017 The Decred developers
+// Copyright (c) 2015-2018 The Decred developers
 // Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ const (
 // versioning 2.0.0 spec (http://semver.org/).
 const (
 	appMajor uint = 1
-	appMinor uint = 3
+	appMinor uint = 4
 	appPatch uint = 0
 )
 
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ var (
 	// the build process with '-ldflags "-X main.appPreRelease=foo"' if
 	// needed.  It MUST only contain characters from semanticAlphabet per
 	// the semantic versioning spec.
-	appPreRelease = ""
+	appPreRelease = "pre"
 
 	// appBuild is defined as a variable so it can be overridden during the
 	// build process with '-ldflags "-X main.appBuild=foo"' if needed.  It