diff --git a/azure-pipelines.yml b/azure-pipelines.yml
index 593b3f869..c4e603155 100644
--- a/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ trigger:
 variables:
   BuildConfiguration: 'Release'
   BuildPlatform: 'Any CPU'
-  major: 5
+  major: 6
   minor: 1
   # creates a counter called versioncounter and seeds it at 100 and then assigns the value to a variable named buildNo.
   buildNo: $[counter('geomversioncounter', 100)]