diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2a49380e6be..8b00c5a762e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 # Change Log
 
+## [1.1.0a1] - 2020-03-27
+
+This release **must** be downloaded via the `get-poetry.py` script and not via the `self update` command.
+
+### Changed
+
+- The core features of Poetry have been extracted in to a separate library: `poetry-core` ([#2212](https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/pull/2212)).
+- The build backend is no longer `poetry.masonry.api` but `poetry.core.masonry.api` which requires `poetry-core>=1.0.0a5` ([#2212](https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/pull/2212)).
+- The exceptions are now beautifully displayed in the terminal with various level of details depending on the verbosity ([2230](https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/pull/2230)).
+
+
 ## [1.0.5] - 2020-02-29
 
 ### Fixed
@@ -823,7 +834,8 @@ Initial release
 
 
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/compare/1.0.5...master
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/compare/1.1.0a1...develop
+[1.1.0a1]: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/releases/tag/1.1.0a1
 [1.0.5]: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/releases/tag/1.0.5
 [1.0.4]: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/releases/tag/1.0.4
 [1.0.3]: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/releases/tag/1.0.3
diff --git a/poetry/__version__.py b/poetry/__version__.py
index 68cdeee4b21..b8d9ea00cbe 100644
--- a/poetry/__version__.py
+++ b/poetry/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "1.0.5"
+__version__ = "1.1.0a1"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2fc42001536..7daac3dfff0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "poetry"
-version = "1.0.5"
+version = "1.1.0a1"
 description = "Python dependency management and packaging made easy."
 authors = [
     "Sébastien Eustace <sebastien@eustace.io>"