From 4164a4e1666491f346d729370f87ab5d5973297e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 09:11:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [1.8.x] Post-release version bump.

---
 django/__init__.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/django/__init__.py b/django/__init__.py
index aa515b51e1..de415c02b7 100644
--- a/django/__init__.py
+++ b/django/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from django.utils.version import get_version
 
-VERSION = (1, 8, 8, 'final', 0)
+VERSION = (1, 8, 9, 'alpha', 0)
 
 __version__ = get_version(VERSION)