From 8cdb9077d3ad46842515cce6279110a8733f93c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Westcott <matt@west.co.tt>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:41:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Version bump to start work on 2.9

---
 wagtail/__init__.py                       | 2 +-
 wagtail/project_template/requirements.txt | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wagtail/__init__.py b/wagtail/__init__.py
index 44acc49cb..4ec983188 100644
--- a/wagtail/__init__.py
+++ b/wagtail/__init__.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from wagtail.utils.version import get_semver_version, get_version
 
 # major.minor.patch.release.number
 # release must be one of alpha, beta, rc, or final
-VERSION = (2, 8, 0, 'rc', 1)
+VERSION = (2, 9, 0, 'rc', 1)
 
 __version__ = get_version(VERSION)
 
diff --git a/wagtail/project_template/requirements.txt b/wagtail/project_template/requirements.txt
index 6596f6980..078b2bb32 100644
--- a/wagtail/project_template/requirements.txt
+++ b/wagtail/project_template/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 Django>=3.0,<3.1
-wagtail==2.8rc1
+wagtail==2.9rc1