Version 2.19.0-279.0.dev

Merge fd39eab463f989153aedfac3972ae0fe24729d8e into dev
diff --git a/tools/VERSION b/tools/VERSION
index 25c77d6..2f95c15 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 19
 PATCH 0
-PRERELEASE 0
+PRERELEASE 279
 PRERELEASE_PATCH 0