From 03b31c0bd99390c1984f19a19f22dd6e77b7692e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Bartholomew <db@dbart.us>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2025 17:22:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] bump the VERSION

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

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 5376961772c..57e87ec47a6 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 MYSQL_VERSION_MAJOR=11
 MYSQL_VERSION_MINOR=4
-MYSQL_VERSION_PATCH=8
+MYSQL_VERSION_PATCH=9
 SERVER_MATURITY=stable