Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/release-v1.44' into matrix-org-hotfixes

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/__init__.py b/synapse/__init__.py

index 5f5cff1dfd..a1fec8ad2b 100644
--- a/synapse/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/__init__.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
-__version__ = "1.43.0"
+__version__ = "1.44.0rc1"
 
 if bool(os.environ.get("SYNAPSE_TEST_PATCH_LOG_CONTEXTS", False)):
     # We import here so that we don't have to install a bunch of deps when