diff --git a/docs/js/templateData.js b/docs/js/templateData.js
index 1bb959e3460..bfe5598ba54 100644
--- a/docs/js/templateData.js
+++ b/docs/js/templateData.js
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ limitations under the License.
 
 // Define variables for doc templates
 var context={
-    "version": "36",
-    "dotVersion": "3.6",
-    "fullDotVersion": "3.6.0",
+    "version": "37",
+    "dotVersion": "3.7",
+    "fullDotVersion": "3.7.0",
     "scalaVersion": "2.13"
 };
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 7cefc403c8c..a303a314199 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ group=org.apache.kafka
 #  - streams/quickstart/pom.xml
 #  - streams/quickstart/java/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml
 #  - streams/quickstart/java/pom.xml
-version=3.6.0-SNAPSHOT
+version=3.7.0-SNAPSHOT
 scalaVersion=2.13.11
 task=build
 org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2g -Xss4m -XX:+UseParallelGC
diff --git a/kafka-merge-pr.py b/kafka-merge-pr.py
index 5368172485b..f868ba521ab 100755
--- a/kafka-merge-pr.py
+++ b/kafka-merge-pr.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ TEMP_BRANCH_PREFIX = "PR_TOOL"
 
 DEV_BRANCH_NAME = "trunk"
 
-DEFAULT_FIX_VERSION = os.environ.get("DEFAULT_FIX_VERSION", "3.6.0")
+DEFAULT_FIX_VERSION = os.environ.get("DEFAULT_FIX_VERSION", "3.7.0")
 
 ORIGINAL_HEAD = ""
 
diff --git a/streams/quickstart/java/pom.xml b/streams/quickstart/java/pom.xml
index fc7436f1b35..d4dbf26827d 100644
--- a/streams/quickstart/java/pom.xml
+++ b/streams/quickstart/java/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
         <artifactId>streams-quickstart</artifactId>
-        <version>3.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>3.7.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>..</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/streams/quickstart/java/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml b/streams/quickstart/java/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml
index 2a31d66c013..74351ac7865 100644
--- a/streams/quickstart/java/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml
+++ b/streams/quickstart/java/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/pom.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-        <kafka.version>3.6.0-SNAPSHOT</kafka.version>
+        <kafka.version>3.7.0-SNAPSHOT</kafka.version>
         <slf4j.version>1.7.36</slf4j.version>
     </properties>
 
diff --git a/streams/quickstart/pom.xml b/streams/quickstart/pom.xml
index 9a8b617ac39..69b5f5fb421 100644
--- a/streams/quickstart/pom.xml
+++ b/streams/quickstart/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
     <artifactId>streams-quickstart</artifactId>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
-    <version>3.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.7.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
     <name>Kafka Streams :: Quickstart</name>
 
diff --git a/tests/kafkatest/__init__.py b/tests/kafkatest/__init__.py
index a52cc8ebbd9..9ab162964c1 100644
--- a/tests/kafkatest/__init__.py
+++ b/tests/kafkatest/__init__.py
@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@
 # Instead, in development branches, the version should have a suffix of the form ".devN"
 #
 # For example, when Kafka is at version 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT, this should be something like "1.0.0.dev0"
-__version__ = '3.6.0.dev0'
+__version__ = '3.7.0.dev0'
diff --git a/tests/kafkatest/version.py b/tests/kafkatest/version.py
index 0656d767fe2..13ca608c787 100644
--- a/tests/kafkatest/version.py
+++ b/tests/kafkatest/version.py
@@ -256,3 +256,7 @@ LATEST_3_5 = V_3_5_1
 # 3.6.x versions
 V_3_6_0 = KafkaVersion("3.6.0")
 LATEST_3_6 = V_3_6_0
+
+# 3.7.x versions
+V_3_7_0 = KafkaVersion("3.7.0")
+LATEST_3_7 = V_3_7_0
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