diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5e693685a7..9bb8f8faf8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 	  wrong-number-of-arguments fatal crash when trying to reparse
 	  dates.
 
+	* src/scm/main.scm: fix "development version" message in head
+	
 2003-02-02  Chris Lyttle  <chris@wilddev.net>
 
 	* configure.in: change to 1.9.0 version
diff --git a/src/scm/main.scm b/src/scm/main.scm
index e599acb8da..17e6618212 100644
--- a/src/scm/main.scm
+++ b/src/scm/main.scm
@@ -343,8 +343,8 @@ string and 'directories' must be a list of strings."
     (_ "This is a development version. It may or may not work.\n")
     (_ "Report bugs and other problems to gnucash-devel@gnucash.org.\n")
     (_ "You can also lookup and file bug reports at http://bugzilla.gnome.org\n")
-    (_ "The last stable version was ") "GnuCash 1.6.8" "\n"
-    (_ "The next stable version will be ") "GnuCash 1.8.0"
+    (_ "The last stable version was ") "GnuCash 1.8.0" "\n"
+    (_ "The next stable version will be ") "GnuCash 2.0"
     "\n\n")))
 
 (define (gnc:startup-pass-1)