diff --git a/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION b/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION
index ed1ae43686..90dd9847e8 100644
--- a/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION
+++ b/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.8.0-alpha.4
+0.8.0-alpha.5