From d04b94b9eae6e3ba3c49f8934a69b58af760622e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: YoastBot CI <yoastbot-ci@yoast.com>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 13:39:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Bump version to 18.9-RC1

---
 package.json    | 2 +-
 wp-seo-main.php | 2 +-
 wp-seo.php      | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f0e458ca976..415984d420d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
     "typescript": "^4.2.4"
   },
   "yoast": {
-    "pluginVersion": "18.8-RC3"
+    "pluginVersion": "18.9-RC1"
   },
   "version": "0.0.0"
 }
diff --git a/wp-seo-main.php b/wp-seo-main.php
index 1a3a73189d5..5407ed2381f 100644
--- a/wp-seo-main.php
+++ b/wp-seo-main.php
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
  * {@internal Nobody should be able to overrule the real version number as this can cause
  *            serious issues with the options, so no if ( ! defined() ).}}
  */
-define( 'WPSEO_VERSION', '18.8-RC4' );
+define( 'WPSEO_VERSION', '18.9-RC1' );
 
 
 if ( ! defined( 'WPSEO_PATH' ) ) {
diff --git a/wp-seo.php b/wp-seo.php
index 0af11f7d015..eae00ee06b1 100644
--- a/wp-seo.php
+++ b/wp-seo.php
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  * @wordpress-plugin
  * Plugin Name: Yoast SEO
- * Version:     18.8-RC4
+ * Version:     18.9-RC1
  * Plugin URI:  https://yoa.st/1uj
  * Description: The first true all-in-one SEO solution for WordPress, including on-page content analysis, XML sitemaps and much more.
  * Author:      Team Yoast