diff --git a/tools/VERSION b/tools/VERSION
index 4401bef..a19c07d 100644
--- a/tools/VERSION
+++ b/tools/VERSION
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #  * Making cherry-picks to stable channel
 #     - increase PATCH by 1
 #
-CHANNEL be
+CHANNEL dev
 MAJOR 1
 MINOR 18
 PATCH 0