diff --git a/cmake/GeoModel-version.cmake b/cmake/GeoModel-version.cmake
index 948ef2a2a1af7a0ab69335aa3e1e3ae0ac8eb9de..96b96670aa104b58dff3a172fdfd16162a8bb886 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 "6.9.0" CACHE STRING
+set( GeoModel_VERSION "6.10.0" CACHE STRING
     "Version of the GeoModel project" )