diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index dd61fdd..c57d054 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "cldr-core",
-  "version": "38.0.0",
+  "version": "38.0.0-BETA",
   "homepage": "http://cldr.unicode.org",
   "author": "The Unicode Consortium",
   "maintainers": [