diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 79fae48..1d25697 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ This will setup a new Reagent project with some reasonable defaults, see here fo
 
 To use Reagent in an existing project you add this to your dependencies in `project.clj`:
 
-    [reagent "0.4.3"]
+    [reagent "0.5.0-alpha"]
 
 You also need to include react.js itself. One way to do this is to add
 
diff --git a/examples/geometry/project.clj b/examples/geometry/project.clj
index fbec2d8..8a39938 100644
--- a/examples/geometry/project.clj
+++ b/examples/geometry/project.clj
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 
 
-(defproject geometry-reagent "0.4.3"
+(defproject geometry-reagent "0.5.0-alpha"
   :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.5.1"]
                  [org.clojure/clojurescript "0.0-2173"]
-                 [reagent "0.4.3"]]
+                 [reagent "0.5.0-alpha"]]
   :plugins [[lein-cljsbuild "1.0.2"]]
   :hooks [leiningen.cljsbuild]
   :profiles {:prod {:cljsbuild
diff --git a/examples/simple/project.clj b/examples/simple/project.clj
index 23cc72e..eba76a4 100644
--- a/examples/simple/project.clj
+++ b/examples/simple/project.clj
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 
 
-(defproject simple-reagent "0.4.3"
+(defproject simple-reagent "0.5.0-alpha"
   :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.5.1"]
                  [org.clojure/clojurescript "0.0-2173"]
-                 [reagent "0.4.3"]]
+                 [reagent "0.5.0-alpha"]]
   :plugins [[lein-cljsbuild "1.0.2"]]
   :hooks [leiningen.cljsbuild]
   :profiles {:prod {:cljsbuild
diff --git a/examples/todomvc/project.clj b/examples/todomvc/project.clj
index db0c231..4b5a03f 100644
--- a/examples/todomvc/project.clj
+++ b/examples/todomvc/project.clj
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 
 
-(defproject todomvc-reagent "0.4.3"
+(defproject todomvc-reagent "0.5.0-alpha"
   :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.5.1"]
                  [org.clojure/clojurescript "0.0-2173"]
-                 [reagent "0.4.3"]]
+                 [reagent "0.5.0-alpha"]]
   :plugins [[lein-cljsbuild "1.0.2"]]
   :hooks [leiningen.cljsbuild]
   :profiles {:prod {:cljsbuild
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index b77602f..badf6e8 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-(defproject reagent "0.4.4-SNAPSHOT"
+(defproject reagent "0.5.0-alpha"
   :url "http://github.com/reagent-project/reagent"
   :license {:name "MIT"}
   :description "A simple ClojureScript interface to React"