From 5ac228eb8bb148ea58da1461411e995b2cd9073f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Chandek-Stark <david.chandek.stark@duke.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 09:37:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Release 1.9.0.rc1

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

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 27f9cd3..f223360 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.8.0
+1.9.0.rc1