From 990a377876d3946a0210ab8d7ce737746ae3f1bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: saad-ali <saadali@google.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2023 14:35:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Bump master version to 1.9 for next release

---
 VERSION | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 27f9cd32..f8e233b2 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.8.0
+1.9.0