From d501ebeac0f7f6c5a29f7f41d578bf8a0c6a0620 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristoffer Carlsson <kcarlsson89@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 21:46:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] release-1.7: set VERSION to 1.7-rc1

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

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index ee7ad5a0796a4..57dfe270da0e9 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.7.0-beta4
+1.7.0-rc1