From 6ffd84167cdb4a8d4de0c00d0680e47bc22f109e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: GitLab Release Tools Bot <delivery-team+release-tools@gitlab.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 22:40:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update VERSION files

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

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index c4b74bf68e4..e646d96dfce 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-18.0.0-rc42
\ No newline at end of file
+18.0.0-rc43
\ No newline at end of file