diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index a83a6c76..234c6cf6 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ To compile irssi you need:
 
 For most people, this should work just fine:
 
- ./configure
+ ./autogen.sh     (for people who just cloned the repository)
+ ./configure      (if this script already exists, skip ./autogen.sh)
  make
  su
  make install     (not _really_ required except for perl support)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 405e8b4c..f44fdb56 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-v0.8.18-beta2 2016-01-13  The Irssi team <staff@irssi.org>
+v0.8.18-head 2016-xx-xx  The Irssi team <staff@irssi.org>
 	* Modules will now require to define a
 	      void MODULENAME ## _abicheck(int *version)
 	  method to ensure that they are compiled against the correct Irssi
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index bf39c95f..c0efd5e3 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT(irssi, 0.8.18-beta2)
+AC_INIT(irssi, 0.8.18-head)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(build-aux)
 AC_PREREQ(2.50)