From 6372471f43ee03c05a7c1f8b0c6ac6b8a7431dbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: GitLab Release Tools Bot <delivery-team+release-tools@gitlab.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 10:52:13 +0000
Subject: Update VERSION files

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

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index ef1c2f66ff1..c816dd8f8dc 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-16.6.2
\ No newline at end of file
+16.7.0-rc42
\ No newline at end of file
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