From 40f7bef16c44b2a8a2283df20204c41297989ecd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dylan Baker <dylan.c.baker@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:56:08 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] VERSION: bump for 25.3.0-rc1

Signed-off-by: Dylan Baker <dylan.c.baker@intel.com>
---
 VERSION | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 182fa725df6..97984a6257b 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-25.3.0-devel
+25.3.0-rc1