diff --git a/docs/js/templateData.js b/docs/js/templateData.js
index 7700e240034..15537f680cd 100644
--- a/docs/js/templateData.js
+++ b/docs/js/templateData.js
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ limitations under the License.
 var context={
     "version": "37",
     "dotVersion": "3.7",
-    "fullDotVersion": "3.7.2",
+    "fullDotVersion": "3.7.3-SNAPSHOT",
     "scalaVersion": "2.13"
 };
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 08ae0ded1ec..eb6adc3d272 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ group=org.apache.kafka
 #  - streams/quickstart/pom.xml
 #  - streams/quickstart/java/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml
 #  - streams/quickstart/java/pom.xml
-version=3.7.2
+version=3.7.3-SNAPSHOT
 scalaVersion=2.13.12
 # Adding swaggerVersion in gradle.properties to have a single version in place for swagger
 # New version of Swagger 2.2.14 requires minimum JDK 11.
diff --git a/kafka-merge-pr.py b/kafka-merge-pr.py
index c16c8111780..8a35206fa7d 100755
--- a/kafka-merge-pr.py
+++ b/kafka-merge-pr.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ TEMP_BRANCH_PREFIX = "PR_TOOL"
 
 DEV_BRANCH_NAME = "trunk"
 
-DEFAULT_FIX_VERSION = os.environ.get("DEFAULT_FIX_VERSION", "3.7.2-SNAPSHOT")
+DEFAULT_FIX_VERSION = os.environ.get("DEFAULT_FIX_VERSION", "3.7.3-SNAPSHOT")
 
 ORIGINAL_HEAD = ""
 
diff --git a/streams/quickstart/java/pom.xml b/streams/quickstart/java/pom.xml
index 1335f0d58bc..075fd5e4ecf 100644
--- a/streams/quickstart/java/pom.xml
+++ b/streams/quickstart/java/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
         <artifactId>streams-quickstart</artifactId>
-        <version>3.7.2</version>
+        <version>3.7.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>..</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/streams/quickstart/java/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml b/streams/quickstart/java/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml
index 445fab4b831..ab76902f382 100644
--- a/streams/quickstart/java/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml
+++ b/streams/quickstart/java/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-        <kafka.version>3.7.2</kafka.version>
+        <kafka.version>3.7.3-SNAPSHOT</kafka.version>
         <slf4j.version>1.7.36</slf4j.version>
     </properties>
 
diff --git a/streams/quickstart/pom.xml b/streams/quickstart/pom.xml
index 94ac32fcac1..8c97314735b 100644
--- a/streams/quickstart/pom.xml
+++ b/streams/quickstart/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
     <artifactId>streams-quickstart</artifactId>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
-    <version>3.7.2</version>
+    <version>3.7.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
     <name>Kafka Streams :: Quickstart</name>
 
diff --git a/tests/kafkatest/__init__.py b/tests/kafkatest/__init__.py
index 1c66c2bcfd6..df4ba9004fe 100644
--- a/tests/kafkatest/__init__.py
+++ b/tests/kafkatest/__init__.py
@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@
 # Instead, in development branches, the version should have a suffix of the form ".devN"
 #
 # For example, when Kafka is at version 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT, this should be something like "1.0.0.dev0"
-__version__ = '3.7.2'
+__version__ = '3.7.3.dev0'
diff --git a/tests/kafkatest/version.py b/tests/kafkatest/version.py
index bed7cffac27..71980a7a7b8 100644
--- a/tests/kafkatest/version.py
+++ b/tests/kafkatest/version.py
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ def get_version(node=None):
         return DEV_BRANCH
 
 DEV_BRANCH = KafkaVersion("dev")
-DEV_VERSION = KafkaVersion("3.7.2-SNAPSHOT")
+DEV_VERSION = KafkaVersion("3.7.3-SNAPSHOT")
 
 LATEST_METADATA_VERSION = "3.7"