Version 2.12.0-179.0.dev

Merge commit 'c7b6e6aa99e76e44d7f807c90ac9f1fc229a9968' into 'dev'
diff --git a/tools/VERSION b/tools/VERSION
index 10b75b8..7bed7b7 100644
--- a/tools/VERSION
+++ b/tools/VERSION
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@
 #  * Making cherry-picks to stable channel
 #     - increase PATCH by 1
 #
-CHANNEL be
+CHANNEL dev
 MAJOR 2
 MINOR 12
 PATCH 0
-PRERELEASE 0
-PRERELEASE_PATCH 0
+PRERELEASE 179
+PRERELEASE_PATCH 0
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