diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
index 2122a7948d1..c55d1172ff0 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ Created as part of the release process.
 + Pierre Chevalier
 + Pierre DAL-PRA
 + Qicheng Ma
++ Rahul Mehta
 + Ramon Buckland
 + Raph Estrada
 + Raúl Cuza
@@ -322,6 +323,7 @@ Created as part of the release process.
 + Stu Hood
 + Subin Kim
 + Suresh Joshi
++ Sven Widén
 + Tal Amuyal
 + Tansy Arron-Walker
 + Ted Dziuba
diff --git a/src/python/pants/VERSION b/src/python/pants/VERSION
index 5f2c5848fd1..7a0915d03e3 100644
--- a/src/python/pants/VERSION
+++ b/src/python/pants/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.24.0.dev3
+2.24.0a0