From 1e791acd414ab4c8ea2f36f8ad8cff3ac8605524 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sneha Agnihotri <180277+snehaagni@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 08:20:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Bump version and update CHANGELOG for core v2.9.0 (#11893)

---
 VERSION           | 2 +-
 docs/CHANGELOG.md | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 834f2629538..c8e38b61405 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.8.0
+2.9.0
diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index 5941ae8a747..0f3d9a2f053 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [dev]
 
+...
+
+## 2.9.0 - UNRELEASED
+
 ### Added
 
 - `chainlink health` CLI command and HTML `/health` endpoint, to provide human-readable views of the underlying JSON health data.