From 08a82c8d1370c8fcdca3a1edb778e936da4de27d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amna Mubashar <amnahkhan.ak@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 01:17:54 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] bump version to 2.21.0-rc1

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

diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index ca6de38cb..09b1360f7 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.21.0-rc0
+2.21.0-rc1