Version 2.18.0-259.0.dev

Merge commit 'a2ab7ccea463d68823e7f3cb01367be2407e61b2' into 'dev'
diff --git a/tools/VERSION b/tools/VERSION
index 4a27978..f835735 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 18
 PATCH 0
-PRERELEASE 0
-PRERELEASE_PATCH 0
+PRERELEASE 259
+PRERELEASE_PATCH 0
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