From df2d3a0e0876f0db2ba9c369483901808ed8ffe5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: GitLab Release Tools Bot <delivery-team+release-tools@gitlab.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:42:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update VERSION files

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

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 84f91f08c71..a221318aa43 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-18.2.0-pre
\ No newline at end of file
+18.3.0-pre
\ No newline at end of file