Version 3.10.0-253.0.dev

Merge 5f0fc5cf97ed2ee18fef918f2b3e9d7aa31d2cba into dev
diff --git a/tools/VERSION b/tools/VERSION
index 0e15ef8..ec2a4eb 100644
--- a/tools/VERSION
+++ b/tools/VERSION
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@
 #  * Making cherry-picks to stable channel
 #     - increase PATCH by 1
 #
-CHANNEL main
+CHANNEL dev
 MAJOR 3
 MINOR 10
 PATCH 0
-PRERELEASE 0
+PRERELEASE 253
 PRERELEASE_PATCH 0