From 51da6793bcbe7295c1f3f881f756b8b60ee06da1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: GitLab Release Tools Bot <delivery-team+release-tools@gitlab.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 08:55:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update VERSION files

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

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 4eb83fa55d6..bd1b353424b 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-16.7.0-pre
\ No newline at end of file
+16.8.0-pre
\ No newline at end of file