From 9a12bf5ee7ac83cbd2b25a538d5b8aa476bcabbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Test User <damask_user@mpie.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 21:15:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [skip ci] updated version information after successful test
 of v3.0.0-alpha8

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

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 0e304accd..cd2bca7c2 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-v3.0.0-alpha8
+3.0.0-alpha8