From abd4cf7d3ba30fe527d7530e7a038897caffc3bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shivaram Lingamneni <slingamn@cs.stanford.edu>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2022 16:37:22 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] bump version to v2.9.0-rc1

---
 irc/version.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/irc/version.go b/irc/version.go
index cc016325..90725d31 100644
--- a/irc/version.go
+++ b/irc/version.go
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import "fmt"
 
 const (
 	// SemVer is the semantic version of Ergo.
-	SemVer = "2.9.0-unreleased"
+	SemVer = "2.9.0-rc1"
 )
 
 var (