From 6af139fa027b44475bd3c32e581f115165ab2ebb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Nobels <jnobels@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:09:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] VERSION.txt: this is v1.96.1 (#18942)

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nobels <jonathan@tailscale.com>
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 VERSION.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index 9141007a5..024f4b4ca 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.96.0
+1.96.1