From 90eda20701d2db1c4821f5d12f139052ab634339 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrei Aristarkhov <aaristarkhov@nvidia.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:48:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Bump version from 1.7.x to 1.8.x

Signed-off-by: Andrei Aristarkhov <aaristarkhov@nvidia.com>
---
 VERSION | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 67686cbadd..712cb2a39c 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.7.x
+1.8.x