From 17681f682592f6e4b1210bdf3b5659e87b086076 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Titus von Koeller <9048635+Titus-von-Koeller@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 00:55:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] up version to next dev (needed for docs)

---
 bitsandbytes/__init__.py | 2 +-
 setup.py                 | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bitsandbytes/__init__.py b/bitsandbytes/__init__.py
index 3b83a8d6d..dbb267d17 100644
--- a/bitsandbytes/__init__.py
+++ b/bitsandbytes/__init__.py
@@ -24,6 +24,6 @@
     "optim.optimizer.MockArgs": False,
 }
 
-__version__ = "0.43.0"
+__version__ = "0.44.0.dev"
 
 PACKAGE_GITHUB_URL = "https://github.com/TimDettmers/bitsandbytes"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 57603a4cc..a51b3867c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def has_ext_modules(self):
 
 setup(
     name="bitsandbytes",
-    version="0.43.0",
+    version="0.44.0.dev",
     author="Tim Dettmers",
     author_email="dettmers@cs.washington.edu",
     description="k-bit optimizers and matrix multiplication routines.",