From 5de30072a200c29f7b17d1eacdf37f50322ff61c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Igor Peshansky <igorp@google.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:03:22 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Bump VERSION to 2.44.0

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

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index dc69c79793..3cee3b97c3 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-PKG_VERSION="2.43.0"
+PKG_VERSION="2.44.0"