diff --git a/cmake/GeoModel-version.cmake b/cmake/GeoModel-version.cmake
index 663dd1cd85f6bc9da154339d90fbc1f4a6ee55cf..a516efb81bae44a92350dfb9972eaa177b8f4947 100644
--- a/cmake/GeoModel-version.cmake
+++ b/cmake/GeoModel-version.cmake
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Set up the version of GeoModel as a cache variable, so that other
 # sub-projects could use this value.
-set( GeoModel_VERSION "6.7.0" CACHE STRING
+set( GeoModel_VERSION "6.8.0" CACHE STRING
     "Version of the GeoModel project" )