From 574c4a6d82c97ada09fe12d0ef1cf75080332c9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: GitLab Release Tools Bot <delivery-team+release-tools@gitlab.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:40:32 +0000
Subject: Update VERSION files

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

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 77405a16a..9e8043383 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-16.7.0-rc43
\ No newline at end of file
+16.7.0-rc44
\ No newline at end of file
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