Update 'main' to track development of 2.40.0 / 23.11 (#6400)

README.md

@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@
 
 [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-BSD3-lightgrey.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause)
 
+**LATEST RELEASE: You are currently on the main branch which tracks
+under-development progress towards the next release. The current release is
+version [2.38.0](https://github.com/triton-inference-server/server/tree/r23.09)
+and corresponds to the 23.09 container release on
+NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC)](https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/containers/tritonserver).**
+
 ----
 Triton Inference Server is an open source inference serving software that
 streamlines AI inferencing. Triton enables teams to deploy any AI model from

TRITON_VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.39.0
+2.40.0dev

build.py

@@ -70,10 +70,10 @@
 # incorrectly load the other version of the openvino libraries.
 #
 TRITON_VERSION_MAP = {
-    "2.39.0": (
-        "23.10",  # triton container
-        "23.10",  # upstream container
-        "1.16.1",  # ORT
+    "2.40.0dev": (
+        "23.11dev",  # triton container
+        "23.09",  # upstream container
+        "1.16.0",  # ORT
         "2023.0.0",  # ORT OpenVINO
         "2023.0.0",  # Standalone OpenVINO
         "2.4.7",  # DCGM version