From 765db9ba4f477584f042e23abc6a7f7cb805b9dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sneha Agnihotri <sneha.agnihotri@smartcontract.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 09:52:58 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Updating version for mercury release 2.8.1

Signed-off-by: Sneha Agnihotri <sneha.agnihotri@smartcontract.com>
---
 VERSION | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 834f2629538..5c7018b706d 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.8.0
+2.8.1-mercury-20231214