diff --git a/cmake/GeoModel-version.cmake b/cmake/GeoModel-version.cmake
index 1996f1b279a5ef3c33e2657e92429b01a11c0110..c49fa0b555ad5c3492f7bbdaca453df956042962 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 "6.1.0" CACHE STRING
+set( GeoModel_VERSION "6.2.0" CACHE STRING
     "Version of the GeoModel project" )