diff --git a/jvm-packages/dev/change_version.sh b/jvm-packages/dev/change_version.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..bb25dde9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jvm-packages/dev/change_version.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+#!/bin/bash
+
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+# (Yizhi) This is mainly inspired by the script in apache/spark.
+# I did some modificaiton to get it with our project.
+# (Nan) Modified from MxNet
+
+set -e
+
+if [[ ($# -ne 2) || ( $1 == "--help") ||  $1 == "-h" ]]; then
+  echo "Usage: $(basename $0) [-h|--help] <from_version> <to_version>" 1>&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+FROM_VERSION=$1
+TO_VERSION=$2
+
+sed_i() {
+  perl -p -000 -e "$1" "$2" > "$2.tmp" && mv "$2.tmp" "$2"
+}
+   
+export -f sed_i
+ 
+BASEDIR=$(dirname $0)/..
+find "$BASEDIR" -name 'pom.xml' -not -path '*target*' -print \
+  -exec bash -c \
+  "sed_i 's/(<artifactId>(xgboost-jvm|xgboost4j-.*)<\/artifactId>\s+<version)>'$FROM_VERSION'(<\/version>)/\1>'$TO_VERSION'\3/g' {}" \;
diff --git a/jvm-packages/pom.xml b/jvm-packages/pom.xml
index b1575096e..3050bfc9a 100644
--- a/jvm-packages/pom.xml
+++ b/jvm-packages/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
     <groupId>ml.dmlc</groupId>
     <artifactId>xgboost-jvm</artifactId>
-    <version>0.7</version>
+    <version>0.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
diff --git a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-example/pom.xml b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-example/pom.xml
index d08a38941..e9e4827db 100644
--- a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-example/pom.xml
+++ b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-example/pom.xml
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>ml.dmlc</groupId>
         <artifactId>xgboost-jvm</artifactId>
-        <version>0.7</version>
+        <version>0.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </parent>
     <artifactId>xgboost4j-example</artifactId>
-    <version>0.7</version>
+    <version>0.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
     <build>
         <plugins>
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>ml.dmlc</groupId>
             <artifactId>xgboost4j-spark</artifactId>
-            <version>0.7</version>
+            <version>0.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>ml.dmlc</groupId>
             <artifactId>xgboost4j-flink</artifactId>
-            <version>0.7</version>
+            <version>0.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
diff --git a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-flink/pom.xml b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-flink/pom.xml
index 855e7e847..3fc76a96b 100644
--- a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-flink/pom.xml
+++ b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-flink/pom.xml
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>ml.dmlc</groupId>
         <artifactId>xgboost-jvm</artifactId>
-        <version>0.7</version>
+        <version>0.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </parent>
     <artifactId>xgboost4j-flink</artifactId>
-    <version>0.7</version>
+    <version>0.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <build>
         <plugins>
             <plugin>
diff --git a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/pom.xml b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/pom.xml
index 4f7f33fef..f37c0fb88 100644
--- a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/pom.xml
+++ b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j-spark/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>ml.dmlc</groupId>
         <artifactId>xgboost-jvm</artifactId>
-        <version>0.7</version>
+        <version>0.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </parent>
     <artifactId>xgboost4j-spark</artifactId>
     <build>
diff --git a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/pom.xml b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/pom.xml
index d73775b6a..aa718ec0a 100644
--- a/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/pom.xml
+++ b/jvm-packages/xgboost4j/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>ml.dmlc</groupId>
         <artifactId>xgboost-jvm</artifactId>
-        <version>0.7</version>
+        <version>0.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </parent>
     <artifactId>xgboost4j</artifactId>
     <version>0.7</version>