From 493e288e6de17f2d85fe981f8bb0b9dfabdf9c6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: GitLab Release Tools Bot <delivery-team+release-tools@gitlab.com>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 16:52:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update VERSION files

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

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index fc183f3d23f..740dda4a7f4 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-16.0.0-pre
\ No newline at end of file
+16.1.0-pre
\ No newline at end of file