From 54fd7b1bad233e3944434da91d257fa7f63c3996 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: GitLab Release Tools Bot <delivery-team+release-tools@gitlab.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 10:43:17 +0000
Subject: Update VERSION files

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

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index b045f481e1e..c06b89bfab7 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-16.2.4
\ No newline at end of file
+16.3.0-rc42
\ No newline at end of file
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