From 841b8edfcc265bb608f3957ccc8a8dd485384194 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: GitLab Release Tools Bot <delivery-team+release-tools@gitlab.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:58:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update VERSION files

[ci skip]
---
 VERSION | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index a905a35c8a7e..6542d610a22a 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-17.8.0-pre
\ No newline at end of file
+17.9.0-pre
\ No newline at end of file
-- 
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