From 6c415036153970bfb2471b3e2b4dda111c45ec3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephan Linz <linz@li-pro.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:31:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] release: bump version to 4.0.0-rc1

1st release candidate 4.0.0 tag.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Linz <linz@li-pro.net>
---
 VERSION | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 83bbbb1d94..1659ec4dbe 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-VERSION_MAJOR = 3
-VERSION_MINOR = 7
-PATCHLEVEL = 99
+VERSION_MAJOR = 4
+VERSION_MINOR = 0
+PATCHLEVEL = 0
 VERSION_TWEAK = 0
-EXTRAVERSION =
+EXTRAVERSION = rc1