From 5b5cee5ad757c4be77f138e2be3131bb99aa9e60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Pivarski <jpivarski@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 16:49:24 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] The next version number will be 4.0.1rc1.

---
 uproot/version.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/uproot/version.py b/uproot/version.py
index 2ba612b6b..fe4df7fe6 100644
--- a/uproot/version.py
+++ b/uproot/version.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 import re
 
-__version__ = "4.0.1"
+__version__ = "4.0.1rc1"
 version = __version__
 version_info = tuple(re.split(r"[-\.]", __version__))