diff --git a/cmake/GeoModel-version.cmake b/cmake/GeoModel-version.cmake
index 9277b4829dcfecf6035f37a61c172281c47f438f..70be31dd3dfbb7f187cce2ea7072553eb17b4dd7 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 "5.4.0" CACHE STRING
+set( GeoModel_VERSION "5.5.0" CACHE STRING
     "Version of the GeoModel project" )