diff --git a/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION b/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION
index 87955fb5..d4c36b75 100644
--- a/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION
+++ b/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.9.0-alpha.1
+0.9.0-alpha.2