diff --git a/packages/create-turbo/package.json b/packages/create-turbo/package.json
index cf2816d6143d8..61f8cf24f26f9 100644
--- a/packages/create-turbo/package.json
+++ b/packages/create-turbo/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "create-turbo",
-  "version": "2.6.0",
+  "version": "2.6.1-canary.0",
   "description": "Create a new Turborepo",
   "homepage": "https://turborepo.com",
   "license": "MIT",
diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-turbo/package.json b/packages/eslint-config-turbo/package.json
index 388072d8c3dbf..df21aa36023ba 100644
--- a/packages/eslint-config-turbo/package.json
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-turbo/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "eslint-config-turbo",
-  "version": "2.6.0",
+  "version": "2.6.1-canary.0",
   "type": "commonjs",
   "description": "ESLint config for Turborepo",
   "license": "MIT",
diff --git a/packages/eslint-plugin-turbo/package.json b/packages/eslint-plugin-turbo/package.json
index 3956a707003a8..cff6b91b9002b 100644
--- a/packages/eslint-plugin-turbo/package.json
+++ b/packages/eslint-plugin-turbo/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "eslint-plugin-turbo",
-  "version": "2.6.0",
+  "version": "2.6.1-canary.0",
   "description": "ESLint plugin for Turborepo",
   "keywords": [
     "turbo",
diff --git a/packages/turbo-codemod/package.json b/packages/turbo-codemod/package.json
index d9051d373787d..9867b7fdd9359 100644
--- a/packages/turbo-codemod/package.json
+++ b/packages/turbo-codemod/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@turbo/codemod",
-  "version": "2.6.0",
+  "version": "2.6.1-canary.0",
   "description": "Provides Codemod transformations to help upgrade your Turborepo codebase when a feature is deprecated.",
   "homepage": "https://turborepo.com",
   "license": "MIT",
diff --git a/packages/turbo-gen/package.json b/packages/turbo-gen/package.json
index 878d9109f0f4c..b45a5a9b8d19a 100644
--- a/packages/turbo-gen/package.json
+++ b/packages/turbo-gen/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@turbo/gen",
-  "version": "2.6.0",
+  "version": "2.6.1-canary.0",
   "description": "Extend a Turborepo",
   "type": "commonjs",
   "homepage": "https://turborepo.com",
diff --git a/packages/turbo-ignore/package.json b/packages/turbo-ignore/package.json
index 36ccaa62cfff2..9fa5b207f937c 100644
--- a/packages/turbo-ignore/package.json
+++ b/packages/turbo-ignore/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "turbo-ignore",
-  "version": "2.6.0",
+  "version": "2.6.1-canary.0",
   "description": "",
   "homepage": "https://turborepo.com",
   "keywords": [],
diff --git a/packages/turbo-types/package.json b/packages/turbo-types/package.json
index b79b74cfd4cef..b0bfed235caa0 100644
--- a/packages/turbo-types/package.json
+++ b/packages/turbo-types/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@turbo/types",
-  "version": "2.6.0",
+  "version": "2.6.1-canary.0",
   "description": "Turborepo types",
   "type": "commonjs",
   "homepage": "https://turborepo.com",
diff --git a/packages/turbo-workspaces/package.json b/packages/turbo-workspaces/package.json
index 152b3d1a9cb25..179184d833e9c 100644
--- a/packages/turbo-workspaces/package.json
+++ b/packages/turbo-workspaces/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@turbo/workspaces",
-  "version": "2.6.0",
+  "version": "2.6.1-canary.0",
   "description": "Tools for working with package managers",
   "homepage": "https://turborepo.com",
   "license": "MIT",
diff --git a/packages/turbo/package.json b/packages/turbo/package.json
index 05c00c4f81a5e..9f2772195841f 100644
--- a/packages/turbo/package.json
+++ b/packages/turbo/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "turbo",
-  "version": "2.6.0",
+  "version": "2.6.1-canary.0",
   "description": "Turborepo is a high-performance build system for JavaScript and TypeScript codebases.",
   "repository": "https://github.com/vercel/turborepo",
   "bugs": "https://github.com/vercel/turborepo/issues",
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@
     "schema.json"
   ],
   "optionalDependencies": {
-    "turbo-darwin-64": "2.6.0",
-    "turbo-darwin-arm64": "2.6.0",
-    "turbo-linux-64": "2.6.0",
-    "turbo-linux-arm64": "2.6.0",
-    "turbo-windows-64": "2.6.0",
-    "turbo-windows-arm64": "2.6.0"
+    "turbo-darwin-64": "2.6.1-canary.0",
+    "turbo-darwin-arm64": "2.6.1-canary.0",
+    "turbo-linux-64": "2.6.1-canary.0",
+    "turbo-linux-arm64": "2.6.1-canary.0",
+    "turbo-windows-64": "2.6.1-canary.0",
+    "turbo-windows-arm64": "2.6.1-canary.0"
   }
 }
diff --git a/version.txt b/version.txt
index bf7a89906da8e..af827b9aa464b 100644
--- a/version.txt
+++ b/version.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-2.6.0
-latest
+2.6.1-canary.0
+canary