From 0108eba5edb46af3704a92805224363fe81ac0b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:42:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] VERSION: bump for 26.1.0-rc1

---
 VERSION | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index bd9acddb35e..ce7b6671b21 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-26.1.0-devel
+26.1.0-rc1