From 4946ac4b28c245ccead340564f36274414976c26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: GitLab Release Tools Bot <delivery-team+release-tools@gitlab.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 08:38:22 +0000
Subject: Update VERSION files

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

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 8f1a30a32..d9617ea1b 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-16.5.0-rc43
\ No newline at end of file
+16.5.0
\ No newline at end of file
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