From 52001e1d5ffa6cfdde2859dccbebd688198bb4ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: silviana amethyst <silvianaamethyst@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 17:11:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] bump version to 3.0.0rc1

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 VERSION | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index b077582cf..11d421a81 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-3.0.0.dev9
+3.0.0rc1