From c0bd3532eafd9c8e5e2ed06044c13a9ffcd45c77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tomislav Janjusic <tomislavj@nvidia.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:08:56 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] v5.0.x: bump version post release

Signed-off-by: Tomislav Janjusic <tomislavj@nvidia.com>
---
 VERSION | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index b0b3fe5f926..d9da7cbefdb 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 major=5
 minor=0
-release=7
+release=8
 
 # MPI Standard Compliance Level
 mpi_standard_version=3
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ flex_min_version=2.5.4
 # requirement is that it must be entirely printable ASCII characters
 # and have no white space.
 
-greek=rc2
+greek=a1
 
 # If repo_rev is empty, then the repository version number will be
 # obtained during "make dist" via the "git describe --tags --always"