Version 3.5.0-249.0.dev

Merge 55a12750ec52f8ff4674d47bea5ac9c172289dda into dev
diff --git a/tools/VERSION b/tools/VERSION
index 686d892..8a08d06 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 5
 PATCH 0
-PRERELEASE 0
+PRERELEASE 249
 PRERELEASE_PATCH 0