From dcdfb21bb151a78b517e99ef2b65fecc7cc90261 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: GitLab Release Tools Bot <delivery-team+release-tools@gitlab.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:40:36 +0000
Subject: Update VERSION files

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

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 77405a16..9e804338 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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