diff --git a/datahub-web-react/src/app/ingest/source/builder/NameSourceStep.tsx b/datahub-web-react/src/app/ingest/source/builder/NameSourceStep.tsx
index 98e5ee2f25..c2c8c92a9c 100644
--- a/datahub-web-react/src/app/ingest/source/builder/NameSourceStep.tsx
+++ b/datahub-web-react/src/app/ingest/source/builder/NameSourceStep.tsx
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ export const NameSourceStep = ({ state, updateState, prev, submit }: StepProps)
                             <Input
                                 data-testid="cli-version-input"
                                 className="cli-version-input"
-                                placeholder="(e.g. 0.15.0)"
+                                placeholder="(e.g. 1.1.0)"
                                 value={state.config?.version || ''}
                                 onChange={(event) => setVersion(event.target.value)}
                                 onBlur={(event) => handleBlur(event, setVersion)}
diff --git a/gradle/versioning/versioning.gradle b/gradle/versioning/versioning.gradle
index ba9e38c885..9d1e7eb6ce 100644
--- a/gradle/versioning/versioning.gradle
+++ b/gradle/versioning/versioning.gradle
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.filters.ReplaceTokens
 
 
 def detailedVersionString = "0.0.0-unknown-SNAPSHOT"
-def cliMajorVersion = "0.15.0" // base default cli major version
+def cliMajorVersion = "1.1.0" // base default cli major version
 def inputFile = file("${rootProject.buildDir}/version.json")
 
 ext {