From ffb5832a4e4db828dc0d964500b74ac14c070003 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kieran Prasch <kieranprasch@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 21:30:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Bump=20version:=207.0.0-rc.3=20=E2=86=92=207.0.?=
 =?UTF-8?q?0-rc.4?=
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---
 .bumpversion.cfg      | 2 +-
 docs/source/conf.py   | 2 +-
 nucypher/__about__.py | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index d9e2fa1d08..1abc46f167 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 7.0.0-rc.3
+current_version = 7.0.0-rc.4
 commit = True
 tag = True
 parse = (?P<major>\d+)\.(?P<minor>\d+)\.(?P<patch>\d+)(-(?P<stage>[^.]*)\.(?P<devnum>\d+))?
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 010c321231..f59b8bd62d 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version
 version = ''
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release = '7.0.0-rc.3'
+release = '7.0.0-rc.4'
 
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/nucypher/__about__.py b/nucypher/__about__.py
index 536aef2b66..8592f3da7a 100644
--- a/nucypher/__about__.py
+++ b/nucypher/__about__.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 __summary__ = "A threshold access control application to empower privacy in decentralized systems."
 
-__version__ = "7.0.0-rc.3"
+__version__ = "7.0.0-rc.4"
 
 __author__ = "NuCypher"