From 5420c017bd8af2315ac460e249357ba8efc7c2ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: GitLab Release Tools Bot <delivery-team+release-tools@gitlab.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:18:19 +0000
Subject: Update VERSION files

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

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 2d3b445f957..8f1a30a325c 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-16.5.0-rc42
\ No newline at end of file
+16.5.0-rc43
\ No newline at end of file
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