From 02afb5c85f2db70a2d59130f908edf0ef9c764cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Timo Heister <timo.heister@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 12:05:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] version 2.4.0-rc1

---
 VERSION               | 2 +-
 doc/manual/manual.tex | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 197c4d5c2d7..bb7adc0d9fa 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.4.0
+2.4.0-rc1
diff --git a/doc/manual/manual.tex b/doc/manual/manual.tex
index a46ed77ed12..981653a297c 100644
--- a/doc/manual/manual.tex
+++ b/doc/manual/manual.tex
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
     \hfill{\Huge \fontfamily{\sfdefault}\selectfont User Manual \\
       \raggedleft \huge \fontfamily{\sfdefault}\selectfont Version
       % keep the following line as is so that we can replace this using a script:
-2.4.0 %VERSION-INFO%
+2.4.0-rc1 %VERSION-INFO%
       \\
       \large(generated \today)
       \\[16pt]