From a1016e48c9277964eead0732d4a4d0c13493ae30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jan iversen <jancasacondor@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 21:56:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] No more 3.7 versions !! (#2418)

---
 API_changes.rst        | 3 +++
 doc/source/roadmap.rst | 7 +++----
 pymodbus/__init__.py   | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/API_changes.rst b/API_changes.rst
index fef2c8cc0..0fb606cba 100644
--- a/API_changes.rst
+++ b/API_changes.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ API changes
 ===========
 Versions (X.Y.Z) where Z > 0 e.g. 3.0.1 do NOT have API changes!
 
+API changes 3.8.0
+-----------------
+
 
 API changes 3.7.0
 -----------------
diff --git a/doc/source/roadmap.rst b/doc/source/roadmap.rst
index 0d7fa3276..1c68232c9 100644
--- a/doc/source/roadmap.rst
+++ b/doc/source/roadmap.rst
@@ -15,13 +15,12 @@ It is the community that decides how pymodbus evolves NOT the maintainers !
 
 The following bullet points are what the maintainers focus on:
 
-- 3.7.5, bug fix release, hopefully with:
+- 3.7.X, bug fix release, hopefully with:
+    - Not planned
+- 3.8.0, with:
     - Simplify PDU classes
     - Simplify transaction manager (central control point)
     - Remove ModbusControlBlock
-- 3.7.6, bug fix release, with:
-    - Not planned
-- 3.8.0, with:
     - new transaction handling
     - transaction 100% coverage
     - skip_encode, zero_mode parameters removed
diff --git a/pymodbus/__init__.py b/pymodbus/__init__.py
index c2a399445..017fb38ee 100644
--- a/pymodbus/__init__.py
+++ b/pymodbus/__init__.py
@@ -18,5 +18,5 @@
 from pymodbus.pdu import ExceptionResponse
 
 
-__version__ = "3.7.5dev"
+__version__ = "3.8.0dev"
 __version_full__ = f"[pymodbus, version {__version__}]"