From 0dc2499b2ae58e35e21d6796be238d6cca42466c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 22:52:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Bump version number for rc1.

---
 man/meson.1            | 2 +-
 mesonbuild/coredata.py | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/meson.1 b/man/meson.1
index b98401312..8bd483759 100644
--- a/man/meson.1
+++ b/man/meson.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESON "1" "November 2023" "meson 1.3.0" "User Commands"
+.TH MESON "1" "February 2024" "meson 1.4.0" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 meson - a high productivity build system
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/mesonbuild/coredata.py b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
index 658ae47b1..e6e831a2f 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/coredata.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-# Copyright 2013-2023 The Meson development team
+# Copyright 2013-2024 The Meson development team
 # Copyright © 2023 Intel Corporation
 
 from __future__ import annotations
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ if T.TYPE_CHECKING:
 #
 # Pip requires that RCs are named like this: '0.1.0.rc1'
 # But the corresponding Git tag needs to be '0.1.0rc1'
-version = '1.3.99'
+version = '1.4.0.rc1'
 
 # The next stable version when we are in dev. This is used to allow projects to
 # require meson version >=1.2.0 when using 1.1.99. FeatureNew won't warn when