From fa3ce0484754b826f252a81afcce8b42a1493342 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carlton Gibson <carlton.gibson@noumenal.es>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 09:39:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [4.0.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 cfc2fbb321..ae6bf59d08 100644
--- a/django/__init__.py
+++ b/django/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from django.utils.version import get_version
 
-VERSION = (4, 0, 8, "final", 0)
+VERSION = (4, 0, 9, "alpha", 0)
 
 __version__ = get_version(VERSION)