diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 515dfde8038..7f9e71e432d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -249,6 +249,17 @@ match = store.find(
 match = store.find(Image(embedding=np.zeros((128,))), field='text__embedding', top_k=10)
 ```
 
+## Install the alpha
+
+to try out the alpha you can install it via git:
+```shell
+pip install "git+https://github.com/docarray/docarra@alphav2-0.1#egg=docarray[common,torch,image]"
+```
+or from the latest development branch
+```shell
+pip install "git+https://github.com/docarray/docarray@feat-rewrite-v2#egg=docarray[common,torch,image]"
+```
+
 ## Further reading
 
 - [V2 announcement blog post](https://github.com/docarray/notes/blob/main/blog/01-announcement.md)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d793391a944..9021cafbd7b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "docarray"
-version = '0.1.0'
+version = '2022.11.29.alpha'
 description='The data structure for unstructured data'
-authors=['Jina AI']
+authors=['DocArray']
 license='Apache 2.0'
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]