diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 986382a4e..906c445f4 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit
 buildscript {
     ext {
         isSnapshot = "true" == System.getProperty("build.snapshot", "true")
-        opensearch_version = System.getProperty("opensearch.version", "2.9.0-SNAPSHOT")
+        opensearch_version = System.getProperty("opensearch.version", "2.10.0-SNAPSHOT")
         buildVersionQualifier = System.getProperty("build.version_qualifier", "")
         // 2.2.0-SNAPSHOT -> 2.2.0.0-SNAPSHOT
         version_tokens = opensearch_version.tokenize('-')