From 4abe2d43c426ce9b5690ed9010cac68030bc0187 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Izaak Beekman <zbeekman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 15:01:15 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Bump version number for release

---
 .VERSION | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.VERSION b/.VERSION
index 6d15b6955..a333e93d3 100644
--- a/.VERSION
+++ b/.VERSION
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 # version, i.e., code is from SCM/git. This project uses semantic
 # versioning. For details see http://semver.org
 
-1.8.7
+1.8.8