diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 5d92b5f..d128fb0 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ dnl This is the package version number, not the shared library
 dnl version.  This same version number must appear in fontconfig/fontconfig.h
 dnl Yes, it is a pain to synchronize version numbers.  Unfortunately, it's
 dnl not possible to extract the version number here from fontconfig.h
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(fontconfig, 2.8.0)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(fontconfig, 2.8.90)
 m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES],[AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE