diff --git a/patches/patchinstall.sh b/patches/patchinstall.sh
index e55c1bcf..da8a9c12 100755
--- a/patches/patchinstall.sh
+++ b/patches/patchinstall.sh
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ upstream_commit()
 # Show version information
 version()
 {
-	echo "Wine Staging 6.23"
+	echo "Wine Staging 7.0-rc1"
 	echo "Copyright (C) 2014-2019 the Wine Staging project authors."
 	echo "Copyright (C) 2018-2020 Alistair Leslie-Hughes"
 	echo ""
diff --git a/staging/VERSION b/staging/VERSION
index 74b27d6b..b9d12d97 100644
--- a/staging/VERSION
+++ b/staging/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Wine Staging 6.23
+Wine Staging 7.0-rc1