diff --git a/projects/hip/bin/hipvars.pm b/projects/hip/bin/hipvars.pm
index ad51505fe3..6fa90975d2 100644
--- a/projects/hip/bin/hipvars.pm
+++ b/projects/hip/bin/hipvars.pm
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ use Cwd;
 use File::Basename;
 
 $HIP_BASE_VERSION_MAJOR = "4";
-$HIP_BASE_VERSION_MINOR = "2";
+$HIP_BASE_VERSION_MINOR = "3";
 
 #---
 # Function to parse config file