From 8937d230b3223d659d47623f30f0dc1e08eba16c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Ye <benye@amazon.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 22:15:55 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] bump RC version to 1.16.0-rc.1

Signed-off-by: Ben Ye <benye@amazon.com>
---
 VERSION | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index b6ea925546..f389f4bfea 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.16.0-rc.0
+1.16.0-rc.1