From 5d4f86326c708e2539feccade18c98b233524081 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 10:04:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Begin post-3.31 development

---
 Help/release/dev/0-sample-topic.rst | 7 +++++++
 Help/release/index.rst              | 2 ++
 Source/CMakeVersion.cmake           | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Help/release/dev/0-sample-topic.rst

diff --git a/Help/release/dev/0-sample-topic.rst b/Help/release/dev/0-sample-topic.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e4cc01e23f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Help/release/dev/0-sample-topic.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+0-sample-topic
+--------------
+
+* This is a sample release note for the change in a topic.
+  Developers should add similar notes for each topic branch
+  making a noteworthy change.  Each document should be named
+  and titled to match the topic name to avoid merge conflicts.
diff --git a/Help/release/index.rst b/Help/release/index.rst
index 40767b7036..101dd68f93 100644
--- a/Help/release/index.rst
+++ b/Help/release/index.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ CMake Release Notes
   This file should include the adjacent "dev.txt" file
   in development versions but not in release versions.
 
+.. include:: dev.txt
+
 Releases
 ========
 
diff --git a/Source/CMakeVersion.cmake b/Source/CMakeVersion.cmake
index 2f6038e21d..697b4899ce 100644
--- a/Source/CMakeVersion.cmake
+++ b/Source/CMakeVersion.cmake
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # CMake version number components.
 set(CMake_VERSION_MAJOR 3)
 set(CMake_VERSION_MINOR 31)
-set(CMake_VERSION_PATCH 0)
-set(CMake_VERSION_RC 0)
+set(CMake_VERSION_PATCH 20241009)
+#set(CMake_VERSION_RC 0)
 set(CMake_VERSION_IS_DIRTY 0)
 
 # Start with the full version number used in tags.  It has no dev info.