From 55e7fbf2534730211ce13890f8b7378a8f8ba6e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Risch <julian.risch@deepset.ai>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:26:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Bump version to v2.8.1-rc1

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

diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index 834f262953..b9d37691e4 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.8.0
+2.8.1-rc1